THE SCEUB-WRENS 



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feathers of the throat and breast with dark shaft streaks, sides of 

 the flanks slightly washed with buff; tail feathers dark grey, with 

 a black sub-terminal band and tipped with white. Length 4.4 inches, 

 wing 2, tail 1.7-0. 



2. No white edging or tip to the tail feathers. 



■White-browed Scrub-Wren, <S. frontalis. — New South Wales, Victoria, and 

 South Australia. Throat yellowish-white with broad dark streaks; 

 wing-coverts indistinctly tipped with white; tail olive and crossed 

 with blackish band, except the central pair; a streak over the eyes 

 and a spot just above the lores white; chin and cheeks also white. 

 Length 4.7 inches, wing 2.3, tail 1.87, tarsus 0.8. 



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Australian Museum. 

 Scrub Wren: Oreoscopus outturalin. 



The Brown Scrub-Wren, S. Jmmilis. — Tasmania, Islands of Bass Strait. 

 Throat and under surfaces pale yellow; throat streaked with blackish; 

 the rest with dusky. Length 5.5 inches. 



The genus Oreoscopus has been created to receive the allied 

 bird, the Collared Scrub-Wren of North Queensland, 

 0. gutturalis, which presents on the lower throat a broad black 

 crescentic band with its marginal feathers posteriorly edged 

 with ashy-white. It is found in the dense scrubs, and builds a 

 nest entirely of moss in some excrescence of a bank. 



