Purple-backed Fairywren

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Maluridae

Genus

Malurus

eBird Code

varfai1

Subspecies (4)

• Malurus assimilis assimilis

  Australia (except tropical north, eastern coast, southern Victoria, southwestern Australia and Tasmania)

• Malurus assimilis bernieri

  coastal central western Australia (Bernier Island, Shark Bay)

• Malurus assimilis dulcis

  north-central Australia (Arnhem Land sandstone, northern Northern Territory)

• Malurus assimilis rogersi

  northwestern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Queensland)