Australian Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society. 991 
Fam. Svrvriapz. 
Genus. Manrumus. Vieill. 
* Rectricibus haud decompositis. 
1. Cyaneus. Mal. capite teniá suboculari lunuláque subnuchali 
sericeo-cæruleis; strigá ante poneque oculos nuchá gutture pec- 
tore dorsoque sericeo-nigris, abdomine albo, remigibus rectri- 
- cibusque brunnescenti-fuscis, caudá rotundatá. — 
Foem. Supra fuscescenti-brunnea, subtus albida, caudá subrotun- 
datá. 
Motacilla cyanea. Gmel. i. 991. no. 165. 
Sylvia cyanea. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 545. no. 142. 
Superb Warbler. 'Phillips's Bot. Bay, pl. at p. 157,8 . p. 159, ? 
White's Journ. pl. at p. 256. fig. sup. Lath. Gen. ae vii. 
p- 117. no. 128. pl. 106. 
In Mr. Caley' s notes we find the following observations on 
this species :—“‘ These birds, at least the brown ones, were very 
common about Paramatta, particularly in n my garden, where they 
came frequently hopping about in the hedges, or among the 
pea-sticks: but I think I may safely say that there was not one 
blue one amongst a hundred of them. They are gregarious and 
polygamous to appearance, unless I have been deceived by the 
young birds possessing the plumage of the female. They are 
very good songsters, and I may say almost the only ones in the 
colony.—The irides are black. 
2. LamBERTI. "Mal. capite strigd subauriculari ad nucham ex- 
" tendente dorsoque medio sericeo-cæruleis ; gulá gutture pec- 
tore nuchá dorso inferiori uropygioque sericeo-nigris, scapula- 
ribus rufo-brunneis, abdomine albo, remigibus rectricibusque 
brunnescenti-fuscis, caudà gradatá. 
Fœm. Brunnescenti-fusca, subtus albida, caudá subgradatá. 
Capitis 
