Species Malurus (Leggeornis) lamberti Vigors & Horsfield, 1827

Variegated Fairy Wren

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• Malurus lamberti Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [221].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1863.77.7.22a adult ♂ (type locality restricted by Gould (1837)), Australia (= New South Wales).

  Secondary source:

   Gould, J. 1837. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [publication dated 1837–1838, Pt 2, Jan. (=Apr.) 1837] (Type restriction to New South Wales).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, lignum or cane grass swamp, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mangrove or mangal, mulga woodland, rocky hummock grassfield, sand-plain hummock grassfield, tropical eucalypt.

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Variegated Fairy-wren)

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