Order PASSERIFORMES 
No. 561. 
Family SYLVIIDJE. 
BYANIA MELANOCEPHALA. 
RED-BACKED WREN. 
(Plate 464.) 
Mtjscicapa melanocephala Latham, Index Ornith. SuppL, p. lh. (after May 30th), 1801 : 
New South Wales, based on Watling painting No. 187. 
Muscicapa melanocephala Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. lii., 1801. 
Orange-rumped Ely(catcher) Latham, Gen. Synops., Suppl. II., p. 225, 1801. 
Sylvia dorsalis Lewin, Birds of New Holland, pi. 14, 1808 : New South Wales. 
Malurus melanocephalus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 222, 
1827 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. m., Vol. III., pi. 26, June 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 333, 1865; Bamsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 589; 
id., Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. IV., p. 296, 1879 ; Bamsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 17, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 180, 
1901 ; C. A. Barnard, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 68, 1904 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. 
No. 1, Vol. I., p. 229, 1904 ; E. I). Barnard, Emu, Vol. V., p. 37, 1905 ; Mathews, 
Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 79, 1908; Mellor, Emu, Vol. X., p. 208, 1910; C. A. 
Barnard, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 235, 1917. 
Malarus brownii Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 223, Feb. 
17th, 1827 : Thirsty Sound, South Queensland ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. m., Vol. 
III., pi. 27, June 1st, 1841. 
Malurus cruentatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 143, March 1840 : North- 
west Coast Australia = Port Essington, Northern Territory; id., Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 334, 1865; Bamsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 233, 1904 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., 
p. 79, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. IX., pp. 11, 61, 1909 ; Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 237, 
1911 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 27, 1911 (Cape York) ; G. F. Hill, ib., Vol. 
XII., p. 258, 1913 (N.T.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 209, 1914 (N.T.) ; id., ib., 
Vol. XIV., p. 45, 1914 ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 224, 1917 ; MacgiUivray, 
ib., Vol. XVH., p. 202, 1918 (N.Q.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 184, 1919 
(N.Q.) ; Harvey, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 40, 1919. 
Malurus dorsalis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 296, 1879 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 17, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 179, 1901 ; 
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