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Eggs. — Three to the clutch ; much bulged in form, and 

 having a colour varying between a reddish-brown and a 

 chocolate, and faintly spotted towards the larger end witli 

 a colour closely assimilating. Length, 0*75 inch ; breadth, 

 0*55 inch. 



WHITE-BROWED SCRUB-WREN 



(White-fronted Sehicornis), 



Sericoriiis frontalist li^. and llors. 



Ser'i-kdr'nis fron'ial'is. 

 Serikos, silken ; ornU, bird ; frons {froidis), front; alls, pertaining to. 



SjiRicoRNis FRONTALIS, Gould, " Birds of Australia," fob, vol. iii., 



pi. 49. 



Geographical Distribution. — Areas 3, 4, 6, 7. 



Key to the Species. — General appearance sombre ; plumage silky ; 

 throat white, with black spots or edgings to feathers ; tail 

 square, with no distinct subterminal band ; no white tips to 

 tail feathers ; wing coverts black, tipped white ; a white spot 

 over lores ; under tail coverts pale yellowish ; tarsus plain. 



Of the eleven species of Scrub-Wrens (Sericorni) we have 

 six in Victoria, the one under review being a typical 

 warbler. Notes on the Warblers can hardly be called 

 complete without a few remarks on a sturdy little bird that 

 is better known to cryptogamic botanists than to other 

 collectors who are not devoted to ornithology. It is only 

 while you are hunting quietly in that particular nature of 

 timber which yields mosses and lichens abundantly that 

 one is likely to become thoroughly acquainted with the 

 White-browed Scrub-Wren. The call and notes of the bird 

 are sharp, clear, and decisive ; and the activity it displays 

 eads it quickly from place to place, principally under 



