Passage: A specimen of the white-winged fairy wren was first collected by French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in September 1818, on Louis de Freycinet's voyage around the Southern Hemisphere. specimen ilikuwa hatimaye kupotea katika shipwreck, lakini uchoraji yenye jina Mérion leucoptère na Jacques Arago alinusurika na kusababisha maelezo ya ndege katika 1824 na Kifaransa ornithologist Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix. jina kwa ajili ya aina ilikuwa inayotokana na Kigiriki ya Kale leuko- "nyeupe" na pteron "mbawa".
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