42. MALtJRUS. 291 



like the upper surface ; thighs duskj- browu ; on the sides of the 

 upper breast a small tuft of white plumes adjoining the white 

 shoulder-spot ; under wing-coverts duU white with dusky bases, 

 the axillaries more fawn-coloured ; quills brown below/whitish 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bUl black ; feet brown ; iris dark 

 brown_ (Gould). Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 1-85 

 tail 2-0, tarsus 0-8. 



Female Crown of head and all the upper surface and flanks 

 brown ; throat and abdomen white, faintly washed with brown • 

 external edges of the primaries and tail pale greenish blue; bill 

 reddish brown. ((?ot«7(7.) re , u n 



Younrimah. Resembles the female, and gains the adult pluma-e 

 by a moult ; the white inner secondaries are washed with brown on 

 tneir nrst appearance. 



lif- Australia : New South Wales ; Interior Province : Victoria • 

 West Australia. ' 



Australia. 



J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 

 Sir George Grey [P.]. 

 Oapt. Sturt [P.i. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



7. Malurus leuconotus. 



Malurus leucouotus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 198; id. Handb B 



i^lV-^h! ' fJn ^'l'^''- ^°^°' *'^^^^^- Pl- 24; Grav, Hand-L 

 184 206 "°' ' ^"'"^''i/. I'r- Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. pp. 



Mult male. General colour above and below rich cobalt-blue the 

 teathers of the mantle greyish white, tipped with blue; centre of 

 the back white; scapulars, wing-coverts, and inner secondaries 

 snow-white ; the coverts near the edge of the wing brown, washed 

 with blue ; quills brown, washed with grevish blue on the outer 

 webs ; the innermost secondaries pure white, the outer ones brown 

 on the inner web, white on the external one ; tail-feathers blue 

 with a narrow edging of white on both webs : thighs fulvous-brown • 

 under wing-coverts fulvous, with duskv bases ; quills browu below' 

 fulvescent along the inner web ; " bill black ; feet brownish black " 

 (ijrovM). lotal length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 1-9 tail 2-4.5 

 tarsus 0-8. ' ' 



Hab. Interior of South Australia. 



«• Ad. sk. Austraha. 



Purchased. 



8. Malurus elegans. 



Mahu-us elegans, Gordd, B. Amtr. folio, iii. pi. 22 ; Grmi, Gen B i 

 P- ^^''^,^P: '^""■'P- i- P- 218; Cab. Mus. IMn. Th. i. p 41.' 

 i;«o-^.«6 Xoy. A>./,o//. pp. 100 291 ; Gould, Handb. B Austr. i. 



pi. 44. fig. 2; Bamsatf, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 184. 



