BANDED WREN. 
“ Differs from M. s. splendens in its much deeper colour, and in having 
a very much slimmer bill, Yalgoo, Mid Wes tr alia,” and in my List, 1913, I 
admitted 
Malurus splendens splendens (Quoy & Gaimard). 
South-west Australia. 
and 
Malurus splendens riordani Mathews. 
Mid-west Australia (Interior). 
and I now add 
Malurus splendens perthi subsp. n. 
for the form from Perth, described by Gould as M. pectoralis, which name is 
preoccupied as shown above, and which differs from the one named by Quoy 
and Gaimard from King George Sound. 
