Order PASSERIFORMES . Family SYLVIIDM 
No. 552. 
MALURUS CYANEUS. 
BLUE WEEN. 
(Plate 459.) 
Motacilla cyayea Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Yol. II., pt. 2, p. 501, 1783, ex Ellis 
M. S. : South Tasmania. 
Motacilla cyanea Ellis, Narr. Voy. Captain Cook, p. 22, 1782 : Adventure Bay, S. Tas. : 
Nomen nudum ; Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Yol. II., pt. 2, p. 501, 1783 ; Gmelin, 
Syst. Nat., pt. 2, p. 991, July 20th, 1789, based on Ellis account ex Latham. 
Motacilla superba Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists’ Miscellany, Yol. I., pi. 10, Nov. 1789 : 
South Tasmania. 
Malurus cyaneus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. NX., p. 215, 1818 ; Vigors and 
Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 221, 1827; Gould, Synops. Birds 
Austr., pt. i., pi. 8, 1837 ; id . , Birds Austr., pt. m. (Vol. III., pi. 18), June 1st, 
1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 317, 1865 ; Biggies, Orn. Austr., pt. v., 
1866 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 589 (Q) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N. S.W., Vol. II., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 286, 1879 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, 
Vol. V., p. 505, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 16, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 163, 1901 ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXVI., 
p. 632, 1901 ; id., Emu, Vol. II., p. 112, 1902 (Tas.) ; Hill, ib., p. 163, 1903 (Vic.) ; 
North, Ibis, 1904, p. 672 (Tas.) ; id Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1. Vol. I., p. 204, 1904 ; 
A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 119, 1905 (Vic.) ; Barrett, ib., Vol. V., p. 20, pi. 
i., 1905 (Vic.); A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 39 (Vic.); id., ib., p. 141, 1906 (Kangaroo 
Island) ; id., ib., p. 152 (Vic.) ; (Phillips), ib., Vol. VI., p. 77, 1907 (Moult) ; Batey, 
ib., Vol. VII., p. 5, 1907 (Vic.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 77, 1908 (Tas.) ; 
Burrell, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 95, 1908, N.S-.W. ; Cleland, ib., p. 151, 1909; Burrell, 
ib., Vol. IX., p. 34, 1909; Dove, ib., p. 151, 1910 (Tas.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. 
XII., p. 3, 1912 (Eyre Peninsula); id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 141, 1914 (Mallacoota, 
Vic.); Ford, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 237, 1918; Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. 
XX., p. 89, 1920 (Sydney). 
Malurus longicaudus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 4, April 1st, 1838 : 
[Not Malurus longicaudus Temminck, Manuel Ornith., 2nd ed., Vol. I., 1820.] 
Tasmania =South Tasmania. Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 148, 
Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. nr. (Vol. III., pi. 19), June 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. 
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