Order PASSERIFORMES 
No. 559. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
LEGGEORNIS AMABILIS. 
LOYELY WREJN. 
(Plate 463, bottom figures.) 
Malurus AMABILIS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1850, p. 277 (after Jan.), 1852 : Cape 
York, Queensland. 
Malurus amabilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1850, p. 277, 1852 ; id., Birds Austr. 
Suppl., pt. 2 (pi. 21), Sept. 1st, 1855 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 328, 1865; 
Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Yol. I., p. 52, 1876 ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., p. 184, 
1878; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 589; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. IV., p. 293, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; I)e Vis, Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. VI., p. 236, 1890; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 16, 1899; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 176, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 225, 1904 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 78, 
1908 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 237, 1910 ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 27, 1911 ; 
Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 172, 1914 ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., 
p. 28, 1917 ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 202, 1918. 
Malurus hypoleucus Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. III., Vol. XIX., p. 369, May 1st, 
1867 : Cape York, Queensland ; id., Birds Austr. Suppl., pt. 4, pi. 22, Dec. 1st, 
1867 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 589. 
Malurus pulcherrimus (not Gould), Hartert Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 223, 1905. 
Malurus dulcis Mathews, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. XXI., p. 100, May 30th, 1908 : 
South Alligator River, Northern Territory ; id.. Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 113, pi. B, 
1913 ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. X., p. 133, 1910; G. F. Hill, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 258* 
1913 ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 45, 1914 ; H. L. White, ib., p. 157, 1915 ; id., 
ib., Vol. XVI., p. 224, 1917. 
Malurus amabilis amabilis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 361, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Malurus amabilis barroni Mathews, ib : Caims, North Queensland. 
Malurus amabilis dulcis Mathews, ib. 
Malurus amabilis rogersi Mathews, ib : Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia. 
Leggeornis amabilis amabilis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 227, 1913. 
Leggeornis amabilis barroni Mathews, id., ib., South Austr. Ornith., Vol. 2, p. 57, 1915. 
Leggeornis amabilis dulcis Mathews, ib. 
Leggeornis amabilis rogersi Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland ; Northern Territory ; North-west Australia. 
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