MALURUS LAMBERT!, Vig. 8s Horsf. 



Male.— Fig. 1. 



Mas. Mai. capite, plumis auricularibus, lateribus colli, dorsoque medio cceruleis ; guld, pectore, dorso 

 inferiore uropygioque nigerrimis; scapularihus rufis ; ahdominealho ; remigihus rectricibusque brun- 

 nescentibus, ccerideo tinctis ; rostro nigro ; tarsis brunneis. 



Long. tot. 5^ unc. ; rostri, J ; alee, 1 1 ; caudce, 2| ; tarsi, §. 



Male. Crown of the head, ear-coverts, sides of the neck, and centre of the back, rich verditer blue ; 

 throat, breast, crescent across the upper part of the back, and rump, black ; scapulars bright chestnut ; 

 wings umber brown with paler edges ; centre of the belly dull white, the sides and under the wings 

 tinged with reddish yellow ; tail-leathers dark brown tinged Math greenish blue and tipped with 

 bluish white ; bill black ; tarsi brown. 



Female. " Above bluish grey ; beneath light ochre yellow." — Lewin. 



Syn. Malurus Lamberti, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans,, vol. xv.p. 221. — Jard. and Selb. 111. Orn., 

 vol. ii. pi. lxxii. fig. 2. 

 Variegated Warbler, Lewin, Birds of New HolL, pi. xv. 



Habited. Australia : locality. New South Wales. 



MALURUS PECTORALIS, Gould. 

 Male.— Fig. 2. 



Mas. Mai. capite dorsoque cyaneis ; macula infraorbitali metallice azured ; lined a rictu ad oculum, 

 fascia cervicem cingente a lateribus productd, alterdque pectorali posticd nigris ; jugulo, 'pectore 

 ventreque saturate purpureis ; remigum pogoniis externis viridibus ; caudd viridi-cceruled ; rostro 

 nigro ; tarsis brunneis. 



Long. tot. 5 unc. ; rostri, i ; alee, 2 ; caudal, 1\ ; tarsi, J. 



Male. Crown of the head, back and rump azure blue ; throat and under surface azure blue with 

 a slight tinge of purple ; a streak of metallic blue of a spatulate form runs from the corner of the mouth 

 across the ear-coverts, which, together with a band at the occiput and another across the chest, is deep 

 velvety black ; the external margins of the wing-feathers green, the inner webs and tips of the primaries 

 brown ; tail-feathers bluish green slightly tipped with white ; bill black ; tarsi brown. 



Malurus pectoralis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part I., 1833, p. 106. 



Remark. May be distinguished from all other known species by the black mark across the breast, 

 by the green colouring of the external edges of the wing-feathers, and by the rich blue colour of the 

 abdomen. 



Habitat. Australia: locality, Swan River. 



MALURUS CYANEUS, Vielll. 

 Male.— Fig. 3. 



Mas. Mai. capite, tcenid suboculari, lunuldque subnuchali cyaneis ; strigd ante po?ieque oculos, nucha 

 dorsoque nigerrimis ; gutture pectoreque intense cceruleo-nigris ; abdomine albido ; remigihus brun- 

 nesceniibus ; rostro nigro ; tarsis brunneis. 



Fcem. Corpore superiore brunneo ; inferiore griseo albido ; rostro et plumis ante oculos rufo-brunneis. 

 Long. tot. 4| unc. ; rostri, J ; alo3, 1 J ; caudce, 2^ ; tarsi, J. 



Male. Crown of the head, stripe from the corner of the mouth, running below the ears, and a 

 broad crescent on the upper part of the back, deep ultramarine blue ; back of the neck, shoulders, 

 back and rump clothed with thick velvety feathers of deep black ; throat and chest deep blue, bordered 

 at the lower part with black ; belly and vent deep black ; wings pale umber drown ; tail-feathers 

 blackish purple with paler edges and white tips ; bill black ; tarsi brown. 



Female. Upper surface brown ; beneath greyish white ; bill and feathers before the eye reddish 

 brown. 



Syn. Motacilla cyanea, Gmel. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 991. 

 Sylvia cyanea, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. ii. p. 545. 



Superb Warbler, Shaw, Zool., vol. x. p. 754. pi. 58. — Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. vii. p. 117.pl. cvi. 

 Malurus cyaneus, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., p. 265. pi. 163. — Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 

 p. 221 — Jard. and Selb. 111. Orn., vol. ii. pi. lxxii. fig. 3. 



Habitat. Australia : locality, New South Wales. 



