REVISION OF THE GENUS MALURUS. 
upper tail-coverts bluish gray-green, tail feathers tipped white, the lateral 
ones white on margins of outer web ; lores, feathers around eye and a supraloral 
stripe, which terminates behind the eye, white ; feathers of lores immediately 
in front of eye tipped black ; ear-coverts bay ; centre of under surface white, 
faintly tinged buff, becoming pinkish buff on sides of body and under tail- 
coverts ; under wing-coverts pinkish buff, whitish near edge of wing, inner 
margins of wing-quills cartridge buff. “Bill nearly black ; eyes brown ; feet 
pale horn.” 
Although two of the specimens examined are labelled as 
from Derby, and a subspecies has been described with that 
place as the type locality, this form nowhere approaches the 
coast. No recent collector has recorded it from the coastal 
area. A single fully plumaged male from Derby (?) has the 
head much lighter (more pinkish) than typical specimens, and 
in that respect is the opposite of the subspecies described. 
Fitzroy River specimens taken 140 miles inland are, however, 
typical coronatus. 
Fig. 4 — Distuuuj i ion 
13 Malu rus ( Rosina ) coronatus coronatus ; 
13a M. ( R .) c. caeruleus 
Malurus ( R .) coronatus caeruleus subsp. nov. 
Subspecific characters. — Differs from typical coronatus in much darker 
colour of back ; from the black band on hind neck to upper tail-coverts is 
more drab distinctly tinged blue, particularly on mantle the feathers of which 
are tipped grayish blue. Female markedly different in colour of head which 
is dark delft blue on forehead, becoming lighter on crown and merging into the 
buffy brown of the upper surface on hind neck ; white feathers of lores 
immediately in front of eye are broadly tipped black, forming a distinct spot. 
Type.- — No. 2608, H. L. White Collection, Nat. Mus. Victoria ; J ad., 
Borroloola, McArthur River, Northern Territory, 3/2/1914 (H. G. Barnard). 
Range. — From Borroloola east to Leichardt River, N.W. Queensland and 
west towards Victoria River, Northern Territory. 
Specimens examined. — 20 from the following localities — Borroloola, Pinda, 
Northern Territory ; Caloola, Leichardt River, N.W. Queensland. 
M easurements . — 
Wing 
11 males .. 53-57 (54) 
5 females . . 52-53 (52-2) 
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Tail Exposed Culmen Tarsus 
69- 81 (72-9) 10-5—1 1 -5 (1M) 22-24 (23-4) 
70- 84 (74-8) 11 22-24 (23-2) 
