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MUSCICAFID/F,. 
MALURUS PULCHERRIMUS, Gould. 
Blue-breasted Superb Warbler. 
Gould, JIandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 190, p. 326. 
A nest of this species found by Mr. Froggatt on the 25th of 
January 1888, in a low bush on the Napier Range, about one 
hundred miles inland from Derby, North-western Australia, is 
similar to those of other members of the genus, being a dome¬ 
shaped structure, outwardly composed of long thin strips of bark, 
matted together with spiders’ cocoons and lined inside with the 
soft downy seeds of a composite plant. It contained three eggs 
in an advanced state of incubation, oval in form, white, sprinkled 
all over the larger end with reddish-brown markings. Length 
(A) 068 x 0-48 inch ; (B) 0-68 x 0-45 inch. From the Macleayan 
Museum Collection. 
Hub. West and South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
MALURUS LEUCOPTERUS, Quoy et Gaimard. 
White-winged Superb Warbler. 
Gould, Handblc. Bds. dust., Yol. i., sp. 194, p. 330. 
“ The nest is from the same district as the following species 
and composed of the same materials and similarly placed ; it is a 
little smaller and rather more loosely put together ; the eggs are 
very similar, only a trifle smaller than those of M. leuconotus, and 
the zone of reddish spots not so distinct; they nevertheless vary 
considerably, some having the zone more defined, others which 
have no zone at all are simply sprinkled all over the thicker end 
with reddish-brown or light red spots; they breed during 
September to December.” {Ramsay, P L.S., H.S. IF., Yol. vn., 
P- 49 -) _ , . 
Dimensions of a set taken by Mr. James Ramsay at Tyndarie, 
are as follows length (A) 0 59 x 0'43 inch ; (B) 0 58 x 0-43 
inch; (C) 0'58 x 0'45 inch ; (D) 0'62 x 0'45 inch. 
Hob. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 
West and South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
