286 



MUSCICAPIDJK. 



h'". Larger ; wiug 2'L5 inches : head, ear- 

 coverts, and mantle rich cobalt-Mue, 



the mantle more extended youhli, p. 287. 



//'. Throat blue ; upper tail-coverts blue. 

 c'". Scapulars blue or black, edged with 

 blue ; wing-coverts bro^vn with bluish 

 edges ; no white shoulder-spot. 

 «■*. A black bar across the rump, this 

 and the lower back being black. 

 «'. Crown of head and mantle deep 

 cobalt-blue ; ear-coverts turquoise- 

 blue melanotus, p. 288. 



b^. Crown of head and mantle greenish 

 turquoise-blue ; forehead and ear- 

 coverts silvery whitish callaiiius, p. 289. 



b*. No black bar across the rump, the 



upper surface entii-ely rich cobalt . . spkndens, p. 289. 

 d'". Scapulars, wing-coverts, and inner 

 secondaries pure white. 



c*. Centre of back blue Imcopterus, p. 290. 



d*. Centre of back white leuconotus, p. 291. 



c". Throat creamy white, a little lighter than , ^,,^^j .^.^ . 293. 



the rest of the under surface j ^j,yp„i,J^,^ l^l^^y 



b'. Scapulars chestnut-red. 



d". Back beautiful silvery blue, a little lighter 



than the eyebrow or ear-coverts elegnns, p. 291. 



e". Back fine cobalt-blue, of a different tint 

 to the eyebrow or crown. 

 e"'. Ear-coverts and eyebrow turquoise- 

 blue, richer than the blue of the nape . lamberti, p. 292. 

 /'". Ear-coverts and eyebrow rich enamel- 

 led blue, only a little brighter than 

 the hinder crown and nape, which in- 

 cline to ultramarine amabtlis, p. 293. 



f". Centre of back purplish blue like the 



crown, the ear-coverts more cobalt .... pulclierrimus, p. 294. 



b. Head lilac, with a black spot in the centre of 



the crown coronalus, p. 295. 



c. Head black, as also the entire under sui'face. 

 c'. Back red. 



ff". Back scarlet-vermilion melanocephalus, p. 296. 



h". Back deep crimson dorsalis, p. 296. 



d'. Back black ; wing-coverts white, forming a 



conspicuous shoulder-patch of white albiscapulatus, p. 297. 



1. Malurus cyaneus. 



Superb Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 501, pi. 53 ; Phillips, 



Voy. Botany Bay, pp. 157, 159. 

 Motacilla cyanea, Ellis, Narr. Voy. Capt. Cook, Sfc, p. 22 ; Gm. Syst. 



Nat. I. p. 991. 

 Motacilla suporba, Shaw, in White's Journ. Voy. N, S. W. p. 256, cum 



fig. super. ; id. Nat. Misc. i. pi. 10. 

 Sylvia cyanea. Lath. Itid. Orn. ii. p. 545. 

 Malurus cyaneus, Vieilt. Analyse, p. 44; Gotdd, Syn. B. Ausfr. part i. ; 



