468 CLASS AVES. 



Maliirus Palustris, Vieil. 



Brown, beneath ferrugineous ; throat bhie ; tail long, 

 wedge-shaped ; tail-feathers pennate, disjointed ; bill 

 blackish brown ; feet brown. New Holland. Allied to 

 Muse. Malachura. 



T. Brachypterus, Lath. Suppl, 



Pale-brown, inclining to ash, beneath breast obscurely 

 waved ; wings very short. New Holland. 



Muscicapa Malachura, Lin. Trans. 

 iv. t. 21. Vail. O. A. t. 130. f. 2. 



Ferrugineous brown, beneath paler ; streak before the 

 eye and eyebrow pale blue ; throat gray ; beard of tail- 

 feathers loose. New Holland. 



Superb Warbler, Lath. Phil. Bot. Bay. tap. 159 d 159. 

 $ . Motacilla Cyanea, Lath. ii. 142. White Jour, 

 t. at 256. Lath. H. t. 106. 



Head, subocular streak, and muchal lunate stripe silky 

 blue; eye-streak, nape, throat, chest, and back silky 

 black ; belly white ; quills and tail fuscous ; tail 

 rounded ; female, above fuscous brown, beneath whitish. 



Lamberfs Warbler, Malurus Lambertii, Vigors and 

 Horsfield, White Jour. tap. p. 256. fig. infer. 



Head-streak extending to the nape and middle of back, 

 silky blue ; throat, chest, nape, back, and rump silky 

 black ; scapulars reddish brown ; belly white ; quills 

 and tail brownish ; tail graduated ; female, brownish ; 

 beneath white ; length five inches and a half. New 

 Holland. 



