Order PASSERIFORMES 
No. 560. 
Family SYLVI1DM. 
LEGGEORNIS PULCHERRIMUS. 
BLUE-BREASTED WREN. 
(Plate 463, two top figures.) 
Malurus pulcherrimus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1844, p. 106, October : West 
Australia=Wongan Hills. 
Malurus 'pulcherrimus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1844, p. 106; id.. Birds Austr., pt. 
xx. (Yol. III., pi. 23), Sept. 1st, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 326, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 294, 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. 177, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., p. 14, 1903 ; id., ib., p. 220, 1904; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 228, 1904 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. IV., pp. 
6, 152, 1904-5 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 79, 1908 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. 
VTII., p. 105, 1908 ; id., Ibis, 1910, p. 653 ; Crossmann, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 88, 
1909 ; Whitlock, ib., Vol. X., p. 307, 1911 ; id., ib., Vol. XI., p. 243, 1912 ; Mathews, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 361, 1912. 
Malurus caeruleicapillus Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 204, 186 9 before 
Feb. 2nd, 1870, ex Gould MS. ( nomen nudum). 
Malurus pulcherrimus stirlingi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 192, March 
20th, 1913 : Stirling Ranges, South-west Australia. 
Leggeornis pulcherrimus pulcherrimus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 227, 1913. 
Leggeornis pulcherrimus stirlingi Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. South-west Australia only ; Wongan Hills and Stirling Ranges. 
Adult male. Crown of head, nape, and upper-back, cobalt-blue ; base of forehead and 
sides of face, including the short feathers encircling the eye, inclining to turquoise- 
blue ; scapulars bright chestnut encroaching more or less on the upper wing- 
coverts ; a band across the hind-neck, rump and upper tail-coverts velvety-black ; 
upper wing-coverts and flight-quills above and below hair-brown ; tail lavender- 
blue with obsolete cross-bars, some of the feathers tipped with white ; lores, throat, 
upper-breast, and sides of neck dark blue-black ; lower breast, abdomen and under 
tail-coverts white ; lower flanks and thighs ochreous-brown ; under wing-coverts 
pale cinnamon-buff ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. Bill black, 
eyes deep brown, feet very dark brown. Total length 142 mm. ; culmen 9, wing 
51, tail 78, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected in the Stirling Ranges, South-west 
Australia, on the 16th of September, 1911. 
Immature males. Are very like the adult females, but have the bill and lores black. 
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