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575:A painting of a male and female emperor fairywren.
309:The emperor fairywren was originally described by
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335:Charles Lucien Bonaparte
305:Taxonomy and systematics
1688:Birds described in 1830
1316:Rufous-crowned emu-wren
1220:Blue-breasted fairywren
1210:Purple-backed fairywren
1069:Oxford University Press
1398:Thick-billed grasswren
1378:Short-tailed grasswren
1373:Carpentarian grasswren
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1173:Broad-billed fairywren
1027:10.2173/bow.empfai1.01
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186:M. cyanocephalus
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1225:Red-winged fairywren
1215:Variegated fairywren
1178:Campbell's fairywren
703:sexually promiscuous
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1408:Kalkadoon grasswren
1153:Wallace's fairywren
1127:Subfamily Malurinae
707:cooperative breeder
699:socially monogamous
526:nominate subspecies
511:M. c. cyanocephalus
404:M. c. cyanocephalus
361:Todopsis mysorensis
349:Todopsis bonapartii
331:Todus cyanocephalus
234:Todus cyanocephalus
65:Conservation status
1383:Striated grasswren
1235:Splendid fairywren
1019:Birds of the World
910:Schodde R (1975).
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