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figure above quoted, if intended for this bird, is by no means 

 correct, and it is, moreover, said to be from Dirk Hatich's 

 Island, on the western coast, a locality very distant from those 

 in which my specimens were procured, New South Wales ; 

 which circumstance strengthens my belief that that may be 

 distinct ; besides which, the bird under consideration is 

 supposed to be exclusively an inhabitant of the interior ; 

 for I have never observed it between the mountain ranges 

 and the coast, and it is scarcely probable, therefore, that it 

 should inhabit an island like that of Dirk Hatich. In case 

 they should prove to be different, I propose the name of 

 Malurus cyanotus for the bird from New South Wales." 



On p. 335, under the name Amytis textilis, Gould wrote : 

 " The bird figured in the ' Voyage de l'Uranie ' doubtless 

 represents the present species. . . . The only place in which 

 I have observed the Textile Wren was the plains bordering 

 the Lower Namoi." He wrote this although he had described 

 Amytis macrourus from West Australia concluding this " Is 

 evidently the representative of A. textilis of the eastern coast, 

 to which it is very nearly allied, but from which ... it may 

 at once be distinguished by its more robust form, and by the 

 much greater length and size of its tail." Notwithstanding 

 the obvious discrepancies indicated above in the statements 

 made by Gould, the compilers of the British Museum Catalogue 

 of Birds continued the misusage of both names and consequently 

 Australian authorities were unable to rectify them. It fell 

 to the lot of an Australian ornithologist, our well-known 

 A. J. Campbell, to indicate that the recognition of the Malurus 

 leucopterus was quite wrong. A dark colored (black and white) 

 Malurus was described in the Victorian Naturalist (XVII. , 

 p. 203) in April, 1901, as a new species Malurus edouardi. The 

 specimens came from Barrow Island, Mid-West Australia. 



In the Emu (October, 1901), Vol. I., p. 26, A. J. C. gave 

 a note : " Astray for 77 years ! Recently (April, 1901) I 

 described a black and white Malurus (M. edouardi) in the 

 Victorian Naturalist. Since I have been induced to refer to 

 Quoy and Gaimard's original figure of M. leucopterus, which 



