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Fam. SvLviADiE. 



Genus. Malurus. Vieill. 



* Rectricibus haud decompositis. 



1. Cyaneus. Mal.capite tcenia suboculari luniilaqiie siibnuchali 



sericeo-caruleis ; strigâ ante poneque ociilos nucha gutture pec- 

 tore dorsoque sericeo-nigris, abdomine albo, remigibus rectri- 

 cibusque brunnescenti-fuscis, caudâ rotunda ta. 



Fœm. Supra fuscescenti-brunnea, subtus albida, caudâ subrotun- 

 datù. 



Motacilla cyanea. Gmel. i. 991. no. 165. 



Sylvia cyanea. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 545. no. 142. 



Superb Warbler. Phillips's Bot. Bai/, pi. at p. 157, <^ • p- 159, P • 

 White's Journ. pi. at p. 256. jig. sup. Lath. Gen. Hist. vii. 

 p. 117. no. 128. p/. 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 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. Mai. capite strigâ subauriculari ad nucham ex- 



tendente dorsoque tnedio sericeo-cceruleis ; gala gutture pec- 

 tore nucha dorso inferiori uropygioque sericeo-nigris, scapula- 

 ribus rufo-brunneis, abdomine albo, remigibus rectricibusque 

 brunnescenti-fuscis, caudâ gradatâ. 

 Fœm. Brunnescenti-fusca, subtus albida, caudâ subgradatâ . 



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