A male Splendid Fairy-wren in full breeding plumage could surely claim to be the most stunningly beautiful of all the fairy-wrens. Splendid Fairy-wrens have a very wide range across southern mainland Australia, from just west of the Great Divide in the east right across to the coast of W.A. In Queensland they occur as far north as the Winton district ( a very pale subspecies), in the N.T. north almost to the Tanami desert, and in W.A. as far north as Carnarvon and Newman but they are absent from much of southern WA east of Ravensthorpe and below the great Southern Railway.