MALURUS LAMBERTI, Vig. 8s Horsf. 
Male— Fig. 1. 
Mas. 3Ial. capite, plumis auricularibus, lateribus colli, dorsoque medio cceruleis ; guld, pectore, dorse 
infer iore uropygioque nigerrimis; scapularibus rujis ; abdomimalbo ; remigibus rectricibusque brun- 
nescentibus, cceruleo tinctis ; rostro nigro ; tarsis brunneis. 
Long. tot. 5^ unc; 7-ostri, alcB, 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-feathers dark brown tinged with greenish blue and tipped with 
bluish white ; bill black ; tarsi brown. 
Female. " Above bluish grey ; beneath light ochre yellow." — Lewiu. 
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 HoU., pi. xv. 
Habitat. Australia : locality, New South Wales. 
MALURUS PECTORALIS, Gould. 
Male.— Fig. 2. ■ ' 
Mas. Mai. capite dorsoque cyaneis ; macula iufmorbitali metallice. azured ; lined a rictu ad oculum, 
fascia cerxncem cingente a lateribus producfd, alterdque pectorali posticd nigris ; jugulo, 'pectore 
ventreque saturate purpureis ; remigum pogoniis extends viridibus ; catidd viridi-cceruled ; rostro 
nigro ; tarsis brunneis. 
Long. tot. 5 unc. ; rostri, 1 ; alee, 2 ; caudce, 2\- ; tarsi, |. 
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 Ijiue 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 L, 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, Vieill. 
Male.— Fig. 3. 
Mas. Mai. capite, tcenid suboculari, lunuldque sidjttacJmli cyaneis ; strigd ante poneque oculos, nuchd 
dorsoque nigerrimis ; gutture pectoreque intense cceruleo-nigris ; abdomine albido ; remigibus brun- 
nescentibus ; rostro nigro ; tarsis bru?meis. 
FcEM. Corpore superiore brunneo ; infcriore griseo albido ; rostro et plumis ante ocidos riifo-brunneis. 
Long. tot. 4| unc; rostri, i; ala;, 1^; caudce, 2^ ; tarsi, |. 
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. x v. 
p. 221. — Jard. and ,Selb. 111. Orn., vol. ii. pi. lxxii. fig. 3. 
Habitat. Australia : locality, New South Wales. 
