Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 553. 
Family SYLVIIDM . 
MALURUS MELANOTUS. 
BLACK-BACKED WREN. 
(Plate 460, bottom figures.) 
Malurtjs melanotus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. in., June 1st, 1841 : Western Belts of the 
Murray, South Australia. 
Malurus melanotus* Gould, Birds Austr., pt. m. (Vol. IV., pi. 20), June 1st, 1841 ; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 163, July, 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 322, 1865 ; Biggies, Orn. Austr., pt. v., 1866 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 288, 1879 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 1145, 1887 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 16, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 169, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 210, 1904; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 78, 1908 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 133, 
1909 (Vic.) ; id., ib., Vol. IX., p. 231, 1910 (Vic.) ; Sullivan, ib., Vol. XI., p. 119, 
1911 (Vic.) ; Wilson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 35, 1912 (Vic.) ; Jackson, ib., p. 101 (N.S.W. ?); 
Stone, ib., p. 114, (Vic.) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 41, 1913 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, 
id., ib., pp. 121, 127, 1914 (Vic.) ; Howe and Tregellas, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 71, 1914 
(Vic.); Ashby, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 220, 1918 (S.A.); Stone, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 124, 
1918 (Vic.); Ashby, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 73, 1919; A. S. Le Souef, ib., Vol. XX., 
p. 143, 1921 (W.A.). 
Malurus callainus G ould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1867, p. 302, Aug. 1st : South Australia 
=Eyre Peninsula; Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pt. iv., pi. 23, Dec. lst,.\ 1867 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 184, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. IV., p. 289, 1879; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., 
p. 1145, 1887 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 16, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 170, 1901 ; id.. 
Emu, Vol. I., p. 65, 1902 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 211, 
1904 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 78, 1908 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIII., 
pp. 18, 27, 1913; id.,ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 197, 1919; Ashby, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 73, 
1919. 
Malurus whitei Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 171 before April 4th, 1901 : 
new name for Malurus callainus Gould; id., Emu, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 65, Jan., 1902 : 
Interior of Australia, not whitei of earlier entry ; id. , ib., Vol. II., p. 229, pi. x., 
* Also spelt melanonolus. 
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