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MALURUS SPLENDENS, Quoy et Gaimard. 
Banded Superb Warbler. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 188, p. 323. 
Mr. K. H. Bennett found a single nest of this species in the 
interior of Australia, close to the South Australian border. The 
nest as usual of this species is dome-shaped and constructed of 
grasses, wool, and moss, lined with a few feathers ; the outside is 
ornamented with some bright yellow and white wild “ everlasting 
flowers ”; it is six inches in length by three in breadth. 
Unfortunately the eggs were too far incubated to be blown, but 
were similar to other eggs of the genus. “ According to Mr. Gould 
the eggs are four in number, of flesh-white, thickly blotched and 
freckled with reddish-brown, especially at the larger end ; eight 
and a quarter lines long by six and a quarter lines broad, and 
they breed during September and the three following months.” 
llab. West and South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
MALURUS ELEGANS, Gould. 
Graceful Superb Warbler. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 189, p. 324. 
“ The nest of this species is dome-shaped with a hole in the side 
for an entrance, and is generally formed of the thin paper-like 
bark of the Ti-tree (Melaleuca), and lined with feathers; it is 
usually suspended to the foliage of this tree, and occasionally to 
that of other shrubs which grow in its favourite localities. The 
eggs are four in number, of a delicate flesh-white, freckled with 
spots of i eddish-brown, which are much thicker at the larger end 
they are about eight lines long and six lines broad. The breeding 
season commences in September, and continues during the three 
following months.” (Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., p. 324.) 
Hub. West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
