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Malurus campbelli

[edit] Identification

Male - black head and face, light blue stripes on brow and over ears, turquoise ear tufts, black crown, pale turquoise superciliaries,powdery sky-blue ventral surface, tawny brown mantle, deep grey-blue lower back, tawny brown upper tail coverts, blue-grey-brown tail, black-brown iris, black bill, deep grey feet.

Female - white lower breast and belly, pale tawny-rufous crissum; otherwise similar to male.

[edit] Distribution

SE New Guinea.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.
Regarded by some authorities as subspecies of Broad-billed Fairywren.

[edit] Habitat

Swampy hill forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

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[edit] External Links