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22. Malurus splendens (Quoy & Gaim.). 



Mr. Shortridge " did not meet with tliis species in 

 Albany," although it is fairly plentiful around that district. 

 I should say that it is considerably more numerous than 

 M. elegans. It is not uncommon in the Broome Hill district 

 and still further to the eastward. 



23. Malurus leucopterus Quoy & Gaim. 



I agree with Mr. North and Mr. Ogilvie-Grant that it is 

 doubtful whether this species and M. leuconotus are distinct. 

 When residing at Point Cloates, where M. leucopterus was 

 plentiful, I found birds that might have been ascribed to 

 M. leuconotus. The appearance of more or less white 

 depends a good deal upon the making of a skin. 



24. Malurus bernieri Grant. 



Malurus bernieri Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 676, pi. ix. fig. 2. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant remarks that it is curious that two 

 skins of this new species, procured in June and July, were 

 in summer plumage. Perhaps they are late breeders. 

 I saw the young of M. leucopterus still in the nest on 

 December 8th, 1898 at the North- West Cape, and the 

 young of M. splendens in the nest at Busselton, early in 

 January 1888. 



25. Malurus pulcherrimus Gould. 



On August the 28th, 1908, I shot two females and a male 

 of the Blue-breasted "Wren" near Broome Hill which were 

 still partly in summer plumage, when the bulk of birds here 

 were in il full-breeding " plumage. 



26. Sericornis maculata Gould. 



The Spotted Scrub- Wren occurs on the Pallenings River 

 at a spot fully ninety miles inland. Mr. Shortridge says " it 

 does not extend its range far inland." I have specimens 

 that vary considerably in the colour and markings of the 

 under parts. 



27. Sericornis balstoni Grant. 



Sericornis balstoni Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 677, pi. ix. fig. 1. 



In his description of this new species Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 



has not stated in what particulars it mainly differs from 



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