Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 554. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
MALURUS SPLENDENS. 
BANDED WREN. 
(Plate 460, top figures.) 
Saxicola SPLENDENS Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de l’Astrol. Zool., Yol. I., p. 197 (pref. 
June 29th), 1830 : King George Sound, West Australia. 
Saxicola splendens Quoy and Gaimard, Yoy. de l’Astrol. Zool., Vol. I., p. 197, 1830. 
Malurus pectoralis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond ), 1833, p 106, Nov. 18th : Swan River, 
West Australia ; id., Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (8), 1837. 
[Not Malurus pectoralis Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., p. 224, 1826.] 
Malurus splendens Gould, Birds Austr., p. iii. (Vol. III., pi. 21), June 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 323, 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. 289, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 16, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 172, 
1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 71, 1902 ; id., ib., Vol. III., p. 16, 1903; H. E. 
Hill, ib., p. 227, 1904 ; North Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 213, 1904 ; 
Milligan, Emu, Vol. IV., pp. 6, 9, 1904; Lawson, ib., p. 134, 1905; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 78, 1908 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 73, 1909 ; Campbell, 
ib., p. 165 ; Whitlock, ib., p. 201, 1910 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 359, 
1912 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 127, 1921 ; Ashby, ib., p. 134; Le Souef, 
ib., p. 142 ; Mellor, ib., p. 139 ; Alexander, ib., p. 166. 
Malurus splendens riordani Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 119, Bee. 24th, 
1912 : Yalgoo, West Australia ; id.. List Birds Australia, p. 225, 1913. 
Malurus splendens splendens Mathews, id., ib. 
Bistribution. South-west Australia, mainly coastal from Stirling Ranges round coast 
to Geraldton. 
Adult male. Crown of head, nape, mantle, back, and upper tail-coverts pale cobalt ; 
lesser upper wing-coverts bronze-green, median and greater series for the most part 
cobalt-blue with paler margins on the outer webs, outer webs of flight-quills greenish- 
blue, inner webs hair-brown with pale edgings ; tail cobalt-blue, inclining to greenish- 
blue at the base, and whitish tips to some of the feathers ; sides of face turquoise- 
blue ; lores and sides of crown velvety-black, as is also the band that encircles the 
neck ; throat, breast, abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts cobalt-blue 
with a few grey and buff feathers intermixed on the lower abdomen, flanks, and 
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