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been determined to prepare a list of correspondents and stations 
I am quite willing my name should appear as correspondent at 
Rockhampton. 
Notes on Certain Maluri, with a Description of a 
New Species* 
By a. J. Campbell, Melbourne. 
I. Owing to the great interest aroused by the discovery (or 
perchance, re-discovery) of a black and white Malurus for 
Australia (see page 26 previous number), it has been thought 
worth while to give illustrations pertaining thereto. See plate 
vi. Fig. I is M. edouardi as it is set up in the Perth Museum. 
Fig. 2 is a copy of Quoy and Gaimard's figure Merion leucoptere 
or Malurus leucoptera^ from an original sketch made on the 
spot. 
It will be noticed that the bill as shown in the French 
naturalist's figure is comparatively very stout for a Malurus. 
The following is the text of the description of this bird, trans- 
lated from the French : — " This bird comes from the same place 
as the previous one (Amytis textilis). We only met it on the 
Island of Dirk Hartog, living among the traquets, which it 
seemed to us to resemble in its habits. It is shown with natural 
splendour in the sketch which M. Arogo made of it at the time. 
Its whole head, neck, belly, and the upper part of the back are 
of so dark a blue as to appear black ; the wings are white on the 
upper part and brownish at their extremities. Perhaps the 
latter colour depends on the age, and is not that which 
ought always to be there. The beak is black and the claws 
are brown. Total length, 3 inches 4 lines, or thereabouts." 
2. Gould has figured an exceedingly beautiful Malurus in 
his great folio work, vol. iii., pi. 20, and named it M. ineianotus 
(Black-backed Wren), and another equally splendid species in 
his Supp., pi. 23, called M. callamus (Turquoise Wren). 
Between these there is apparently an intermediate species or 
variety, at least if difference of colouring may be taken as a 
criterion. I alluded to this possible third or intermediate 
variety in my work "Nests and Eggs," page 171. Since the com- 
pletion of my MS. for the volume, I have had the opportunity of 
examining more material, which has confirmed my opinion, and 
I think ornithologists will eventually recognize this third 
species. Therefore, I venture to name the new bird Malurus 
wJiitei^ in memory of the late Mr. Samuel White, of Adelaide, 
who was the discoverer of Gould's type of M. callainus, and who 
lost his life indirectly in the interests of Australian ornithology. 
Respecting Mr. White, Gould wrote : — " No one of my many 
correspondents in Australia is more keenly alive to the interest 
which attaches to our favourite branch of science — ornithology." 
