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MALURUS EDOUARDI (Camp.) Black and White Wren 
Type. — No. 3326 ; Co Types , Nos. 3227, 3228 in Western Aus- 
tralian Museum, Perth. — Barrow Island, N.W. Australia. — Collector, 
John T. Tunney. January, 1901. 
“Victorian Naturalist,” April 4th, 1901, Vol. XVII., No. 12, 
page 203. 
The discovery of a black and white Malurus in Australia was of 
considerable interest to Ornithologists. The only other pied species 
of this genus, M. albiscapulatus , is found in New Guinea, from which 
the Australian species differs in having the upper wing coverts and inner 
secondaries, in addition to the scapulars, white. 
For the new bird, Mr. A. J. Campbell proposed he name Malurus 
edouardi , in honor of His Majesty King Edward VII., this being the 
first Australian bird discovered during his reign. 
This new wren was discovered by the collector of the Western 
Australian Museum, Mr. John Tunney, amongst spinifex on Barrow 
Island, off the north-western coast of Australia, in December, 1900. 
Only three specimens were obtained, and they are all male birds, 
in various stages of plumage. Mr. Campbell predicts that the female, 
judging by analogy, will doubtless be brownish ; paler on the under- 
neath part, and owing to its environments will probably be more rusty 
colored than the females of the other members of its genus. 
MALURUS PULCHERRIMUS (Gould)— 
Type in British Museum. 
The “ Blue-breasted Wren,” Malurus pulchernmus , although not 
new, is worthy of mention because from the time when it was dis- 
covered by Gilbert, the collector, in the Woongan Hills in 1842 (see 
Goulds figures in his “ Birds of Australia”), not another specimen was 
obtained until Messrs. A. W. Milligan and C. P. Conigrave, in the 
month of October, 1902 (after a lapse of 6 j years), during a scientific 
expedition to the Stirling Ranges in the South, secured five speci- 
mens, and in the following year they obtained 13 skins in the Woon- 
gan Hills, the site of the original discovery. 
