Among the species of which I sent home characters from New South Wales, for publication in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, was the present pretty bird, to which I gave the specific name of _cruentatus_; upon comparison, however, of my specimens with the _Malurus Brownii_ in the Linnean Society’s Collection, I find they are identical, consequently my name must sink into a synonym. Mr. Brown, who was the donor of the Linnean Society’s specimen, obtained his bird near Broad Sound, on the eastern coast; while those from which my description was taken were procured on the north-west, and formed part of the collection placed at my disposal by the officers of the Beagle. It differs from _Malurus melanocephalus_ in the more intense and deep blood-red of the back, and, as Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield justly observe, it is much less in size. Of its habits and economy, or the situations to which it gives preference, no information has yet been obtained; but we may reasonably suppose, that two species so nearly resembling each other in structure and colour as _M. Brownii_ and _M. melanocephalus_ do not greatly differ in their habits. I have lately received an account of its being common at Port Essington; and, as I have above stated, it is an inhabitant of the eastern and north-western coasts; we may consequently conclude that its range extends over the whole of the northern parts of the Australian continent. The male in summer has the head, neck, wings, all the under surface and tail black; primaries and secondaries brown; back and shoulders fine crimson; bill black; legs fleshy brown. The female is uniform light brown, the abdomen inclining to white; bill and feet light brown. The Plate represents a male and female, on the _Bæckia linifolia_. [Illustration: AMYTIS TEXTILIS: _Lefs:_ _J. & E. Gould del^t._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] AMYTIS TEXTILIS. Textile Wren. _Malurus textilis_, Quoy et Gaim. Zool de l’Uranie, p. 107. pl. 23. fig. 1. The birds figured in this and the following Plate differ from each other considerably in plumage, as well as in the structure of the bill, that organ in the present bird being shorter and more robust than in _Amytis striatus_.