Order PASSERIFORMES 
No. 557. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
LEGGEORNIS LAMBERTI. 
VARIEGATED WREN. 
(Plate 462.) 
Matures lamberti Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 221, 
Eeb. 17th, 1827 : New South Wales. 
Malurus lamberti 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. 24), June 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 327, 1865; Higgles, Om. 
Austr., pt. v., 1866; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 53, 1876 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 589, 1876; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 292, 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. 176, 1901 ; id., Emu, Vol. III., p. 58, 1903 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 218, 1904 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds 
Austral., p. 78, 1908; Cleland, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 222, 1910 ; Mellor, ib., Vol. X., 
p. 208, 1910 ; Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., p. 89, 1921. 
Malurus assimilis North, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XVIII., p. 29, June 6th, 1901 : “ Gulf 
of Carpentaria, Western New South Wales,” etc. =Mossgiel district ; Interior of 
New South Wales; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., pp. 88, 91, 1902; (Anon.) Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 230, pi. x., 1902 ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 36, 1903 ; Campbell, Emu, Vofe III., 
p. 58, 1903 ; Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., p. 6, 1904 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. I., p. 222, 1904; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. Ill, 1906; id., Emu, 
Vol. VII., p. 27, 1907 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 78, 1908 ; Whitlock, 
Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 180, 1909 (W.A.) ; Hall, ib., Vol. IX., p. 127, 1910 : Eyre 
Peninsula; Whitlock, ib., p. 201 (W.A.) ; Howe, ib., p. 232 (Vic.); Wilson, ib., 
Vol. XII., p. 35, 1912 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, ib., pp. 124, 129 ; G. F. Hill, ib., p. 249, 
1913 (N.T.) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 41, 1913 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, ib., p. 127, 
1914; Macgillivray, ib., p. 171, 1914; Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., pp. 6, 259, 
1918-19 ; Ashby, ib., Vol. XX., p. 134, 1921 ; Whitlock, ib., p. 182. 
Malurus bernieri Grant, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XXIII., p. 72, May 7th, 1909: 
Bernier Island ; id.. Ibis, 1909, p. 676, pi. ix. : West Australia. 
Malurus lamberti lamberti Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 360, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Malurus lamberti assimilis Mathews, ib. ; Jackson, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 168, 1918. 
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