REVISION OF THE GENUS MALURUS. 
Specimens examined. — 11 from the following localities — King River, Mary 
River, Northern 1 erritory ; Napier Broome Bay, N.W. Australia. 
M easurements . — 
Wing Tail Exposed Culmen Tarsus 
6 males . . 49-5-51 (50-1) 53-70 (64-5) 10 19-5-22 (20-3) 
4 females . . 45-50 (47-7) 61-67 (64) 10 20 
Male. — Forehead light methyl blue gradually deepening on top of head to 
bradley’s blue on nape ; ear-coverts and feathers around eye pale cerulean 
blue ; lores, a band on back and sides of neck, and lower back, black ; upper 
back phenyl blue ; scapulars chestnut ; wing quills fuscous, outer margins 
and upper wing-coverts lighter and suffused with blue, some coverts near edge 
of wing mottled blue-violet ; tail dark delft blue, greenish towards base and 
most feathers tipped white ; upper tail-coverts black with lighter bases ; chin, 
throat and breast black, a few feathers on sides of breast tipped smalt blue ; 
remainder of under surface white, tinged bluish lavender on flanks and under 
tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, faintly tinged buff, 
inner margins of wing-quills cartridge buff. “Bill black ; eyes dark brown ; 
feet brown.’’ 
Female. — Upper surface dark green-blue gray, a greenish tinge on forehead 
and ear-coverts ; lores and feathers around eye white ; wings fuscous, margins 
of quills whitish and those of upper wing-coverts the same colour as the back ; 
tail dark delft blue, greenish towards base and most feathers tipped white ; 
entire under surface white, tinged cartridge buff, and indistinctly grayish on 
flanks ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pinkish buff, inner margins of wing- 
quills cartridge buff. “Bill pale reddish-brown ; eyes brown ; feet very pale 
brown.” 
It is remarkable that this very distinct form should ever 
have been considered conspecific with amabilis. The fact that 
the female is not brown appears to me to be the only feature 
common to both. King River, Northern Territory, is the most 
easterly point where this species has been taken. Two males 
and one female from Napier Broome Bay are identical with 
Northern Territory specimens except that the female has the 
lores chestnut, not white. Mathews has figured a similar 
specimen as the female of M. amabilis rogersi, but only addi- 
tional material can explain this small but important difference. 
M alums (M alums) elegans Gould. 
Malurus elegans Gould, Birds of Aust. & Adj. Islands, pt. 1, p. 2, 1837 ; 
=Sw r an River, Western Australia. 
Leggeornis elegans warreni Mathews, Aust. Avian Rec., 3, p. 61, 1916 ; 
Warren River, South-west Australia. 
Range . — Coastal S.W. Australia from King George Sound to a little north 
of Perth. 
Specimens examined . — 17 from the following localities — King George 
Sound, Albany, Wilsons Inlet, Warren River, near Lake Williams and Gingin, 
S.W. Australia, 
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