Order PASSERIFORMES 
No. 562. 
Family SYLVIIDJE. 
EOSINA CORONATA. 
PURPLE-CROWNED WREN. 
(Plate 464.) 
Malurus coronatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1857, p. 221, Jan. 12th, 1858 : 
Victoria River, Northern Territory. 
Malurus coronatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1857, p. 221, 1858 ; id., Birds Austr. 
Suppl., pt. 3, pi. 20, Sept. 1st, 1859 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 329, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. IV., p. 295, 1879 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., 
p. 1089, 1887 ; Vol. II., p. 168, 1887 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 17, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 178, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 91, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Kilgour, ib., Vol. IV., 
p. 42, 1904 (N.W.A.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. L, p. 233, 1904 ; 
Rogers, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 155, 1908 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 79, 1908 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 361, 1912 ; Witmer Stone, Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 166, 1913 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 258, 1913 (N.T.) ; Campbell 
and Kershaw, ib., p. 278 (N.T.) ; Macgilhvray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 172, 1914 (N.T.) ; 
Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 45, 1914 (N.T.) ; H. L. White, ib., p. 59 (eggs) ; id., ib., 
Vol. XVI., p. 224, 1917. 
Malurus coronatus macgillivrayi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. i., p. 9, Aug. 2nd, 
1913 : Augustus Downs, Leichhardt River, Gulf of Carpentaria. 
Rosina coronata coronata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 227, 1913 ; id., South Austr. 
Ornith., Vol. 3, p. 174, 1918. 
Rosina coronata macgillivrayi Mathews, ib., p. 228, 1913. 
Distribution. North-west Australia from Derby, through Northern Territory, to Leich- 
hardt River, West Queensland. 
Adult male. Crown of the head and nape bright lilac with an irregular patch of black 
in the middle ; back and wings pale rust-brown like the rump ; lesser upper wing- 
coverts ash-grey ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dark brown with pale edges ; 
outer aspect of flight-quills like the back, inner webs dark brown with pale inner edges ; 
upper tail-coverts and tail verditer-blue with obsolete cross-bars on the latter, some 
of the feathers tipped with, and the outer ones margined with, white along the outer 
web ; lores and sides of face deep black ; rictal bristles black ; the feathers in 
front of the eye bristly in structure ; chin and throat cream- white ; breast, abdomen, 
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