210 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



a Malurus, recently described as new,'' under the name of M. 

 edouardi. Judging by the description and photograph, these 

 birds are, in my opinion, the true Malurus leucopterus of Quoy and 

 Gaimard, described seventy-seven years ago. They were procured 

 in December, 1900, by Mr. J. T. Tunney, a collector of the Western 

 Australian Museum, on Barrow Island, off the coast of North- 

 western Australia. JBarrow Island is about three hundred and fifty 

 miles in a direct line to the N.N.E. of Dirk Hartog, where the type 

 of this species was obtained by Quoy and Gaimard. The scapulars, 

 upper wing-coverts, and innermost secondaries of the adult male, 

 which are white, show that if. leucopterus is closely allied to the 

 more recently described 31. cyanotus, and differs only from the 

 latter species in having the general colour of the upper and under 

 surface bluish-black, instead of cobalt-blue." 



5 Vict.-Nat., xvii., 1901, p. 203. 



6 The above note was sent last July to Melbourne for publication in the 

 " Victorian Naturalist," but was temporarily withdrawn, pending an 

 application to the Western Australian Museum, Perth, for the loan of the 

 type. 



