REVISION OF THE GENUS MALURUS. 
pinkish buff, inner margins of wing-quills cartridge buff. "Bill black ; eyes 
deep brown ; feet very dark brown.” 
Female. — Upper surface, including upper wing coverts, hair brown ; wing- 
quills fuscous, outer margins whitish ; tail deep bluish grey-green, some 
feathers tipped white ; lores and feathers around eye fawn colour ; under 
surface whitish, tinged drab, and becoming drab-grey on flanks and under 
tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pinkish buff, inner margins of 
wing-quills cartridge buff. "Bill light brown ; eyes deep brown ; feet very 
dark brown.” 
Regarding the name perthi Mathews stated . . . “for the 
form from Perth, described by Gould as M. pectoralis, which 
name is preoccupied as shown above, and which differs from 
the one named by Quoy and Gaimard from King George Sound.” 
He gave no single character, and no difference is apparent in 
available specimens from the two localities. 
M alums (M.) splendens aridus, subsp. nov. 
Subspecific characters. — Markedly lighter in colouration than typical 
splendens, particularly head, ear-coverts, and mantle. Forehead mazarine 
blue, deepening to salvia blue on nape and mantle ; ear coverts pale cerulean 
blue. 
Type. — No. 2361, H. L. White Collection, Nat. Mus. Victoria; ad., 
Lake Way, Western Australia, 18.7.1909 (F. L. Whitlock). 
Range. — From the Stirling Ranges north probably to the Murchison River, 
and east, at least to Lake Way and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 
Specimens examined. — 9 from the following localities — Lake Way, Yalgoo, 
Stirling Ranges and Broome Hill, Western Australia. 
M easurements . — 
Wing Tail Exposed Culmen Tarsus 
6 males . . 50-53 (52) 59-67 (62-3) 8-9 (8-8) 21-5-23 (22-5) 
1 female 53 63 9 21 
The difference in colour between this and typical splendens 
is marked, but much more material from the wide range given is 
desirable. A male from Yalgoo closely resembles the Lake Way 
specimen. Those from Broome Hill, and, to a less extent, 
Stirling Ranges, reflect the close promixity of these localities 
to the range of the typical form. The species has been recorded 
between Kalgoorlie and Eucla on the border of South Australia, 
but no specimens have yet been collected. No representative 
is contained in collections made at Zanthus and Naretha in that 
part of the State. 
M alums (M.) splendens riordani Mathews. 
Malurus splendens riordani Mathews, Aust. Avian Rec., 1, p. 119, 1912 ; 
Yalgoo, Western Australia. 
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