Order PASSERIFORMES Family SYLVIIDM. 
No* 558. 
LEGGEORNIS ELEGANS. 
RED-WINGED WREN. 
(Plate 462.) 
Malurus elegans Gould, Birds Austr., and Adj. Isl., pt. i., pi. 2., Aug. 1837 : “ East 
Coast ”=errore West Australia (Swan River). 
Malurus elegans Gould, Birds Austr. and Adj. Isl., pt. i„ pi. n., 1837 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. in. (Vol. III., pi. 22), June 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Yol. I., p. 324, 
1865 ; Diggles, Orn. Austr., pt. v., 1866 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Yol. II., 
p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 291, 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. 175, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 71, 1902 ; 
id., ib., Vol. III., p. 17, 1903 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 227, 
1904; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 78, 1908; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 360, 1912 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. X., p. 306, 1911 ; Witmer-Stone, Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 166, 1913 ; Orton and Sandland, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 79, 1913 ; 
Le Souef, ib., Vol. XX., p. 143, 1921 ; Alexander, ib., p. 166. 
Leggeornis elegans Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 226, 1913. 
Leggeornis elegans warreni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 61, April 7th, 
1916 : Warren River, South-west Australia. 
Distribution. South-west Australia (Coastal only from Albany to Perth). 
Adult male. Crown of head and sides of face pale turquoise-blue, including the eye, and 
terminating in a point on the sides of the neck, becoming darker blue on the hinder- 
crown and nape ; a narrow band across the mantle and a patch on the middle of 
the back also turquoise-blue, the feathers of the latter white at the base and black 
at the tips ; scapulars chestnut ; wings dark brown with slightly paler edges to 
the feathers ; tail dark lavender-blue, some of the feathers narrowly edged with 
white at the tips ; rictal bristles black ; lores, throat, breast, sides of neck, hind- 
neck, rump and upper tail-coverts velvety-black ; abdomen and flanks buffy- 
white, becoming dusky on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; under wingrco verts 
cinnamon-buff like the inner margins of the quills below, remainder of quill-lining 
dark hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. Bill black, 
eyes hazel, feet dark purplish-flesh. Total length 153 mm. ; culrnen 9, wing 53, 
tail 81, tarsus 24. Figured. Collected at Albany, South-west Australia, on the 
12th of January, 1909. 
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