PURPLE-CROWNED WREN. 
44 Many specimens of this beautiful species were obtained during the months 
of September and October ; judging from some young individuals they must 
have been breeding as early as June. During the first year the young males 
resemble the females in plumage, with the exception of the ear-coverts.” 
Although this bird was known from the North-west and the Northern 
Territory, no subspecies were named until I received specimens from their 
furthest east point, when I proposed : 
M alums coronatus macgillivmyi. 
44 Differs from M. c. coronatus in having a bluish-mauve crown to its head, 
not pinkish-mauve, and the black collar on the nape only indicated. 
Augustus Downs, Leichhardt River, Gulf of Carpentaria,” and in my 1913 
44 List ” I used the genus Bosina allowing : 
Rosina coronata coronala (Gould). 
Northern Territory, North-west Australia. 
Rosina coronata macgillivrayi (Mathews). 
Interior of Mid-Queensland. 
I admit the above, but restrict R. c. coronata to Northern Territory and 
the adjoining parts of the North-west Australia, and separate : 
Rosina coronata rogersiana subsp. nov. 
44 Differs from R. c. coronata (Gould) in its slightty paler coloration 
generally, the pinkish-mauve crown being slightly darker. Derby.” 
North-west Australia. 
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