Order PASSERIFORMES Family SYLVIIDJE. 
No, 563. 
STIPITURUS MALACHURUS. 
EMU-WREN. 
(Plate 465.) 
Muscicapa malachura Shaw, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. IV., p. 242, May 24th, 1798 : 
New South Wales. 
Muscicapa malachura Shaw, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. IV., p. 242, 1798 ; Latham, 
Suppl. Index Ornith., p. 211, 1801. 
Motacilla fimbriata Wilkes, Encycl. Londinensis, Vol. XVI., p. 102, 1817 : based on Le 
Vaillant, Ois. d’Afrique, Vol. III., pi. 130, f. 2 : New South Wales, c/. Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. IV., pt, 6, p. 143, 1921. 
Malurus palustris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XX., p. 213, May 30th, 
1818 : new name for M. malachura Shaw. 
Malurus gularis Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. n., p. 224, Feb. 18th, 
1826 : new name for M. malachura Shaw. 
Malurus malachurus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 224, 
1827. 
Stiviturus malachurus Lesson, Traite d’Orn., livr. 6, p. 415, 1831 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
pt. m. (Vol. III., pi. 31), June 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 339, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 100, 1883 ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 
1886, p. 240, 1887 ; id., ib., 1887, p. 90, 1888 (Tas.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Keartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 176, 
1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 23, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 214, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 71, 1902 (W.A.) ; id., ib., 
Vol. III., p. 17, 1903 (W.A.) ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 39, 1903 (W.A.) ; Fletcher, 
ib., Vol. IV., p. 16, 1904 (Tas.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 
242, 1904; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. IV., pp. 112-146, 1905 (Vic. and Tas.) ; Batey, 
ib., Vol. VII., p. 6, 1907 (Vic.) ; Mathews, Hancll. Birds Austral., p. 79, 1908 ; 
Carter, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 105, 1908 (W.A.) ; Campbell, ib., note ; Ingle, ib., Vol. 
X., p. 123, 1910 (Vic.) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 31, 1910 ; Cleland, Emu, 
Vol. XI., p. 87, 1910 (Food.); id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 12, 1912 (Food.); Fletcher, 
ib., Vol. XII., p. 168, 1913 (Tas.) ; id., ib., Vol. XIII., p. 50, 1913 (Tas.) ; S. A. 
White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 142, 1915 (Mallacoota, Vic.) ; Campbell, ib., p. 173, 1915 
(N.Q.) ; Fletcher, ib., p. 213 (Tas.) ; Purnell, ib., Vol. XV., p. 43, 1915 (Vic.) ; 
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