1839, April The first scientific name was given from Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honroe Jacquinot. They named the Gouldian Finch “Poephile admirable”, after they found three specimens of Black-headed Gouldian Finches.

1844  John Gould classifies the Gouldian Finch in the genus “Amadina gouldiae”,  because he described the
Gouldian Finch first before Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honroe Jacquinot. That's why the classification was him allowed.

1876 The first yellow-headed Gouldian Finch was collected by W.G. Armit at Four Mile Creek, Dunrobin, near Georgetown, North Queensland. 

1887 The first Red-headed and
Black-headed Gouldian Finches were imported to Europe. Another classification for the Gouldian Finches has been made by Dr. Karl Ruß: “Spermestes gouldiae”.

1891 Mr. Reginald Phillips bred Gouldian Finches in England and proved that the three head colors of the
Gouldian Finches were from the same species.

1899 Red-headed Females with Black feathering on their heads were considered to be Melanistic.

1930 (around) Mr. Hans Catt in
Carlington, Sydney/ Australia had the first Lutinos, which were wild caught in the late 1930's. All Lutinos had bad eyesight.

1938 Gouldian Finches with blue streaks in the chest and a greenish-yellow feathering were reported and bred by
the breeder Keston at the Foreign Bird Farm in United Kingdom. The report was not established.

1941 The first “Australian dilute-back” Gouldian Finches were reported by E. Waite in Upper Paddington, Queensland/Australia.

1946 Report about Blue-backedGouldian Finches in Sydney/Austrarlia.

1950 (around) Report that white-breasted Gouldians were bred by the breeder Fred Carew in Sydney/Australia and also in South Africa.

1950 (around) Report about Albinos in Australia

1953 Report about blue-back Gouldians in Sydney/Australia.

1955 Blue-backed Gouldians were successful bred by Ray Murray in Sydney.

1958 In Australia was reported that 50 Lutino Gouldian Finches existed, but later all died. The Lutino mutation disappeared in captivity. 55 birdcatchers caught 27,000 Gouldian Finches near Kimberly/Australia. Not more than 400 survived.

1960. 01.01 A historical turning point: Australia imposed an export ban of all kind of animals, of course Gouldian Finches. This law is also valid for in captivity bred animals.

1960 (around) Report about more blue-backed Gouldian Finches with a teal-blue colour were caught from the wild in Australia.

1966 Report about a cream body Gouldian Finch with a white breast, white wings, a tangerine head, flecked
with grey, and pink legs. This report from Australia was not established.

1967 Mr. F. Barnicoat, South Africa, bred the three head colours in the white-breasted Gouldians and published an articel about the white-breasted Gouldian Finches. Mr. F. Barnicoat exported white-breasted Gouldian Finches to Netherland.

1970 (around) Report about blue-breasted Gouldians in the USA, Europe, South Africa and Australia. At this time it was not proved that the appearance of the blue- breasted Gouldian Finches was a mutation. It was thought to be an over-melanization.

1973 Two reports about fawn Gouldian
Finches (breeder Keith Thompson, Melbourne and L. Koenig, Ararat/Australia. They didn’t have pink eyes. The report was not established. Also another report about the appearance of fawn Gouldians in two aviaries in Melbourne was not established.

1976 Report from the United Kingdom that 21 Breeders had white-breasted Gouldian Finches. Report about exports of white-breasted Gouldian Finches from South Africa and England to the USA.

1977  USA imported white-breasted Gouldian Finches.

1987: report about an “Australian white-breasted yellow Gouldian Finch” with a yellow head in Australia.

1980 (around) Report that blue-breasted Gouldians were bred by the breeder Herschel Frey in USA.

1982: Report that a Lutino Gouldian Finch in the Netherland was offered for sale. The bird had a red head and was all yellow. Only one of this mutation existed. The Netherland bird magazin “Vriends” reports later (1991) that Lutinos with red and yellow heads had been established by the Netherland breeder G. Megens. This mutation had been established in Australia (around 1960) and was not sex-linked. G. Megens had crossed the Lutino with pastel to produce an Albino Gouldian Finch. This is probable the Fallow gene, the same appeared in Japan in the late 1960's.

1984 Report about Pastel Gouldians in the Netherland, which appeared in 1979. Price for each one: $1000.

1984 Reports about special colour appearance, inter alia: - red-breasted Gouldians in South Africa - black-breasted Gouldians in Germany - Gouldians with black back and wings - Gouldians with red between the breast and stomach.

1985  Report about purple-breasted and also white-breasted blue back Gouldian Finches are becoming popular in the USA.

1985  Reports about more special colour appearance, inter alia: black-headed white-breasted Gouldian Finches with patchy turquoise blue colour among the green feathers.

1985  Report about the first Pastel Gouldian breeding in the USA by Terry Dunham.

1986 Report that several breeders in the United Kingdom were able to establish the lilac brest mutation.

1986 The species Gouldian Finch was classified in the family of birds “Estrildidae”.

1988 Report about export of Gouldians from Venezuela to Cuba.

1990 Report that a black-headed, blue-backed Gouldian Finch, bred by the breeder Mr. Robert Lynd, New Lambton/ Newcastle/ Australia, from green parents. The report was not established, because the bird died.

Report that Lutino Gouldian Finches were bred in Belgium.

Report that the “Australian yellow-pastel mutation” is sex-linked (alike the “European Pastel Green mutation”).

Report that the “Australian Dilute Back” is autosomal recessive.

Report that the “Australian White Breasted Yellow mutation” is autosomal recessive.

Report that the “Australian Pastel” is autosomal recessive.

Report that the blue-backed Gouldians were not firmly established in Australia (until 1995).

Report that the “Australian Blue” gene (teal-blue) is autosomal recessive.

Report that the “Australian blue-backed mutation” is darker blue than the “European Blue”, but also autosomal recessive.

Report that a lilac-breasted Gouldian Finch appeared in Australia.

1992 Lutino Gouldians in Belgium were sold to Japan. 

1993 Report that Cinnamon Gouldians were bred by Daniel Wildemeersch/ Belgium. Mr. Wildemeersch reported that this mutation is sex-linked, but had a high death rate.

1994  Report that blue-backed (teal-blue) Gouldian Finches were established in Australia. Blue-backed Gouldians from Australia were first caught from wild birds and not similar to the blue-backed in Europe. They were last seen in 1970's, and then appeared again in 1990.

1999 Report that in Japan 10 breeder have Lutino and Albino Gouldians.

2003 Report that the the first
black-headed Lutino in the USA was bred by the breeder Cindy Godwin.

2005  Report that the lilac-breasted Gouldian Finches are bred worldwide and also accepted as a mutation: To the purple breast is the lilac breast autosomal recessive heritable. To the white breast is the breast chest autosomal dominant heritable. 

2005 Report that the “Australian dilute mutation” and the “Australian yellow white-breasted mutation” are only found in Australia. Both mutations are autosomal recessive.

2005 Dark Factor Gouldian Finches were reported in the United Kingdom. The “Dark Factor” is co-dominant.

2007 A black-headed Lutino Gouldian Finch wins in a Belgian Exhibition.

22/09/2009: first Blue Headed Gouldians reported in Cuba by Breeder Juan Farrat Acanda. His Blue Headed gouldian left behind more than 60 descendants.

Blue head usually appear in SF Pastel Black Head males.

2010 Report that Lutino Gouldian Finches with black heads, tan heads, brown heads and also white breasts were bred in Germany.

2010 Report that Gouldian Inos with black heads, tan heads, brown heads and white breasts and also red eyes were bred in Bahrain.

2010 Report that red-headed Gouldian Inos with a white breast were bred in Spain.

2011 Report that the first yellow-headed and black-headed Albino females were bred by the Delmar Gouldian Aviary in the USA.

2011 Report that the first black-headed Lutino Gouldian Finches were bred in America by the Delmar Gouldian Aviary. Both birds were females.

2011 Report that “Cuban Inos” (originated from Spain) came to the USA. The “Cuban Inos” have black heads, tan heads and brown heads with a white breast, also red eyes and darkish yellow bodies. Probablythis was combination with Cinnamon mtation.

2012 Report about an Albino
Gouldian with tan head in Israel.

New Mutation by Csaba Fekete. The first international presentation of Hungarian Dilute mutation was at the Serbian national ornithological championship in Sombor, in December 2014.

 Report in Facebook from 17.10.2016 about a new mutation in Gouldian Finches: The “Marbled-backed, yellow and white-rumped Gouldian Finch” by Manny De Freitas/ South Africa. Report from Facebook about a new mutation in South-Africa: The edge blue Gouldian Finch.

2017-2018 Some of the first black head purple breast Australian recessive dilute Blue appears by Kim Parker and Tony Ward

2018: Report about Cinnamon Ino (Satinet) and Blue Satinet from Italy

2018: Cinnamon Seagreen by Jurre Corbee from Dutch 

2018-2019: Blue Edge were breed in South Africa

The Hungarian dilute mutation was accepted  (22/01/2020) by the COM!

There are numerous discussions in closed groups (Facebook and Whatsup) with expert breeders from different countries (Italy, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Holland etc.) about mutations of Cinamon, Hungarian Diluted and Pastel. Test Breedings are being made and the structure of the feather and the effect of the mutation on melanosomes are also being studied. There are opinions about the incorrect name of the mutation Pastel and Cinnamon. Suggestions to rename Mutation Cinnamon to Hungarian Diluted, And possibly rename Mutation Pastel to may be Dilute or Pallid or something else. But still eeed a lot of testing because of give the same name to similar mutation of different species, it would be a big mistake... very different mutations may cause similar phenotype with quite different mechanisms.