MALUEUS. 115 



MALURUS SPLENDENS, Quoy et Gaimard. 



Banded Superb Warbler. 



Gould, Eandhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 188, p. 323. 



Mr. K. H. Bennett found a single nest of this species in the 

 interior of Australia, close to the South Australian border. The 

 nest as usual of this species is dome-shaped and constructed of 

 grasses, wool, and moss, lined with a few feathers ; the outside is 

 ornamented with some bright yellow and white wild " everlasting 

 flowers " ; it is six inches in length by three in breadth. 

 Unfortunately the eggs were too far incubated to be blown, but 

 were similar to other eggs of the genus. " According to Mr. Gould 

 the eggs are four in number, of flesh-white, thickly blotched and 

 freckled with reddish-brown, especially at the larger end ; eight 

 and a quarter lines long by six and a quarter lines broad, and 

 they breed during September and the three following months." 



Hah. "West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 



V. MALURUS ELEGANS, Gould. 



Graceful Superb Warbler. 



OoulJ, Randbh. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 189, p. 324. 



" The nest of this species is dome-shaped with a hole in the side 

 for an entrance, and is generally formed of the thin paper-like 

 bark of the Ti-tree (Melaleuca), and lined with feathers ; it is 

 usually suspended to the foliage of this tree, and occasionally to 

 that of other shrubs which grow in its favourite localities. The 

 ecgs are four in number, of a delicate flesh-white, freckled with 

 spots of reddish-brown, which are much thicker at the larger end ; 

 they are about eight lines long and six lines broad. The breeding 

 season commences in September, and continues during the three 

 following months." (Gould, Ecmdbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., p. 324.) 



Hah. West and South- We^t Australia, (Bamsay.) 



