Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae Author LeCroy, M. text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2008 2008-07-02 313 1 1 287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1 journal article 10.1206/313.1 0003-0090 13223808 Malurus cyaneus fletcherae Mathews Malurus cyaneus fletcherae Mathews, 1912e: 93 (North Tasmania (Ringarooma)). Now Malurus cyaneus cyaneus (Ellis, 1782) . See Schodde, 1982: 40 , 47, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 90 , 92. HOLOTYPE : AMNH 601711 , adult male, collected at Ringarooma , 41.14S , 147.44E ( USBGN , 1957b), Tasmania , Australia , on 21 February 1907 , by Edwin Ashby (no. 118). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2262) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. I found four paratypes in AMNH : AMNH 601718 and 601719, males collected at Devonport on 8 February 1909 by T. Carter (a single entry, no. 2264, in Mathews’ catalog) ; AMNH 601720 (2265), immature male, Devonport , 9 February 1909 , by T. Carter ; and AMNH 601723 (2263), female, New Norfolk , March 1886 , by E. Ashby . Schodde (1982: 40) provided evidence that Ellis, 1782, should be considered the author of Malurus cyaneus , which Ellis called Motacilla cyanea .