118 MUSCIOAPIDJE. 



Sah. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and 

 Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior. {Batnsay ) 



MALURUS CALLAINUS, GouU. . 



Tiirq[uoisiiie Superb ■Waa?bler. 



Gould, Suppl. Bds. Aust., pi. 23. 322r /<?, 



" This Wren, one of the latest species described by Mr. Gould 

 is far from rare in the interior, my brother Mr. James Ramsay 

 having no difficulty in obtaining as many specimens as I required 

 during one season, both of its nests and eggs with the birds shot 

 therefrom. Although the eggs appear quite different from those 

 of other species of the genus, still it is difficult to express these 

 differences in a description. Eggs white or pinkish-white with 

 minute dots and small spots of rich red sprinkled over the whole 

 surface, in some forming zones, in others blotches. What I 

 consider the more typical eggs of this species are those with a few 

 dots of dark red sparingly sprinkled over the whole surface of the 

 shell, closer together on the thicker end, but seldom forming a 

 distinct zone ; all more or less pointed ; (A) 0'67 x 048 inch ; 

 (B) 0-67 X 0-48 inch ; (C) 0-66 x 0-48 inch." J. B., Dobr. Mus. 

 (Ramsay, P. L.S., N.S.W., 2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1145.) 



Sab. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. 

 {Ramsay.) 



^ MALURUS CRUENTATUS, Gould. 



Brown's Superb Warbler. 

 Oould, Handble. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 197, p. 334. 



"Nest dome shaped with the entrance at the side, slightly 

 protected with a hood, placed among grasses or shrubs near the 

 ground. Eggs four for a sitting, length (1) 0-6 x 0-45 inch ; (2) 

 0-68 X 0-46 inch ; the last is an exceptionally large egg of this 

 species, and has the dots crowded into a brownish-red patch on 



