It looks a lot like the Emperor Fairy-wren Malurus cyanocephalus from PNG. At least is seems entirely consistent with the painting (page 59) in Richard Schodde’s Fairy wren book.
So quite some interpretive license calling it our bird.
Philip
It looks a lot like the Emperor Fairy-wren Malurus cyanocephalus from PNG. At least is seems entirely consistent with the painting (page 59) in Richard Schodde’s Fairy wren book.
So quite some interpretive license calling it our bird.
Philip