Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 526. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
CISTICOLA EXILIS. 
GRASS-WARBLER. 
(Plate 443.) 
Malurus exilis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 223, 
Feb. 17, 1827 : New South Wales. 
Malurus exilis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 223, 1827. 
Cysticola* exilis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxiv. (Vol. III., pi. 42), Sept. 1st, 1846 ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1847, p. 1 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 350, 1865 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p, 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 
VII., p. 269, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Aust.. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 24, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 227, 
1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 258, 1904; Bemey, Emu, 
Vol. V., p. 73, 1905, (N.Q.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 227, 1905; Cornwall, 
Emu, Vol. VII., p. 175, 1908; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 73, 1908; id., 
Emu, Vol. IX., p. 11, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 237, 1910 (N.Q.) ; 
Hill, ib., p. 278, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 26, 1911 (N.Q.) ; 
Fletcher, ib., Vol. XII., p. 171, 1913 (Tas.) ; Agnew, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 96, 1913 
(Q.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 224, 1917 (N.T.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XVII., 
p. 201, 1918 (N.Q.) ; Thomson, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 199, 1919 (Vic.) ; Campbell, ib., 
Vol. XX., p. 61, 1920 (N.Q.). 
Cysticola ruficeps Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 4, April 1838 : New South 
[Not Malurus ruficeps Cretzschmar in Ruppell’s Atlas, p. 54, pi. 36 a, 1826, which is a Gisticola.] 
Wales; id., Proc. ZooL Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 146, 1838 (Dec.); id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xxvi. (Vol. III., pi. 45), March 1st, 1847 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. 1., p. 353, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; Witrner Stone, 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pts. 6-7, p. 163, 1913. 
Cysticola lineocapilla Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1847, March 29th, p. 1, Port Essington, 
Northern Territory ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxvn. (Vol. III., pi. 43), June 1st, 1847 ; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 351, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Witrner Stone, 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pts. 6-7, p. 163, 1913. 
Cysticola isura Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxvi., Vol. III., pi. 44, March 1st, 1847 ; New 
South Wales ; id. , Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1847, p. 32, April : id., Handb. Birds 
* Also spelt Cisticola. 
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