REVISION OF THE GENUS MALURUS. 
band on back and sides of neck and lower back black ; upper back smalt blue ; 
scapulars chestnut ; wing quills fuscous, whitish on outer margins, upper 
wing-coverts hair brown, margins of innermost tawny ; tail and upper tail- 
coverts deep grayish blue-green, some tail feathers tipped white and some 
coverts black ; chin, throat and breast dusky blue-violet (2), a few feathers 
across lower breast tipped black ; remainder of under surface white, tinged 
buff on flanks and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts warm 
buff, inner margins of quills whitish. “Bill black ; eves dark brown ; feet 
very dark brown.” 
Female. — Upper surface olive-brown, a grayish tinge on forehead and sides 
of face and neck ; wing quills fuscous, whitish on outer margins ; upper 
wing-coverts hair-brown ; tail and upper tail-coverts deep grayish blue-green, 
some coverts tinged olive-brown ; lores and feathers around eye chestnut ; 
chin, throat and breast pale smoke gray merging into buffy brown on flanks 
and under tail-coverts ; centre of abdomen white, faintly tinged buff ; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts warm buff, inner margins of wing-quills whitish. 
Bill chestnut-brown. "Eyes and feet dark brown.” 
In common with M. elegans, the throat and breast of this 
species is blue-violet as distinct from the black of these parts 
in the remainder of the chestnut-shouldered group. A mere 
strip of country on the line of 20 inch rainfall, between Wongan 
Hills and the Stirling Ranges, appears to be the extent of its 
range. The author of the only subspecies named has since 
consigned it to synonyomy (Syst. Avium Aust., pt. 2, p. 625). 
The inclusion here by recent authors of Leggeornis lamberti 
eyrei Mellor appears to me unwarranted. Described from two 
specimens taken more than 1000 miles east of the known range 
of pulcherrimus, eyrei appears to have been properly included 
by Mellor under lamberti. The only difference that he noted 
was that the two specimens exhibited a bluish tinge on the 
throat in some lights. This slight variation is quite compatible 
with lamberti, but it does not approach the blue-violet on the 
throat and breast of pulcherrimus which is more pronounced 
than in any other similarly marked species. 
Subgenus Hallornis Mathews. 
Hallornis Mathews, Aust. Avian Rec., 1, p. 113, 1912. Type, Malurus 
cyanotus Gould. 
Ryania Mathews, ib., 1, p. 113, 1912. Type, Muscicapa melanocephala 
Latham. 
Nesomalurus Mathews, ib., 2, p. 59, 1913. Type, Malurus edouardi 
Campbell. 
Malurus ( Hallornis ) leuconotus Gould. 
Malurus leuconotus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 198 ; South 
Australia (interior). 
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