Order PASSERIFORMES 
No. 556. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
NESOMALURUS LEUCOPTERUS. 
BLACK AND WHITE WHEN. 
(Plate 461, Right hand figures.) 
Malurus LEUCOPTERUS Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. XXX., p. 118, May 29th, 
1824, based on Q.uoy and Gaimard, pi. 23, f . 1 : Dirk Hartog Island, Shark’s 
Bay, West Australia. 
Malurus leucopterus Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. XXX., p. 118, May 29th, 1824 ; 
Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de l’Uranie et Physicienne Zool., p. 108, pi. 23, f. 1, Sept. 
18th, 1824; Campbell, Emu, Vol. I., pp. 26-65, pi. vl, Oct. 1901, Jan. 1902; North, 
Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 209, Jan. 6th, 1902 ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. XIX., p. 1, 
pi. 1, 1919 ; Whitlock, ib., Vol. XX., p. 180, 1921. 
Amytis leucopterus Lesson, Traite d’Orn., p. 454, 1831. 
Malurus edouardi Campbell, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XVII., p. 203, Eeb. 7th, 1901 : 
Barrow Island, West Australia; id., Emu, Vol. I., p. 26, Oct. 1901; id., ib., 
p. 65, pi. vl, Jan. 1902; North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 210, Jan. 1902; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 115, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 79, 
1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. XVIH., p. 248, pi. xxxrx., 1919 ; Campbell, ib., Vol. 
XIX., p. 1 , pi. 1 , 1919. 
Malurus leucopterus leucopterus Mathews, Nov. Zook, Vol. XVIII., p. 362, 1912 : Alexander, 
Emu, Vol. XIX., p. 138, 1919. 
Malurus leucopterus edouardi Mathews, Nov. Zook, Vol. XVIII., p. 362, 1912 ; Whitlock, 
Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 175, 1918; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 127, 1918; 
Alexander, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 138, 1919. 
N esomalurus leucopterus leucopterus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 229, 1913 ; id., Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 79 et seq., ph 3, 1917 ; Carter, Ibis, 1917, p. 593 ; id., Emu, 
Vol. XVIII., p. 139, 1918. 
Nesomalurus leucopterus edouardi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 229, 1913. 
Distribution. Dirk Hartog Island, Shark’s Bay, West Australia ; and Barrow Island, 
Dampier Archipelago, West Australia. 
Adult male. Top of head, back, upper tail-coverts, outer upper wing-coverts, sides of 
face, throat and entire under-surface, including the under wing-coverts, glossy- 
black with steel-blue reflections on the crown of the head ; a tuft of white feathers 
on each side of the breast ; inner upper wing-coverts, scapulars, upper-back, and 
innermost secondary- quills pure white, the white on the upper back is almost covered 
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