 They coined the binomial name "Fringilla oculata".The description was published in the zoology volume of Dumont d'Urville's account of the expedition aboard the "Astrolabe", based on a specimen that Quoy and Gaimard had collected at King George Sound.Their publication preceded the entry as "Estrelda oculea" in John Gould's "Birds of Australia" (1848), this later description making an unnecessary emendation to the spelling of the epithet "oculata".