IP Hi -A. T IB XIV 



GENUS SERICORNIS (Gould). 



THE members of this peculiarly Australian genus inhabit the Southern portion of the continent, 

 where they are found in swampy places or in a secluded part of the forest, or in deep gullies 

 where there is a great deal of scrub. Their nests, like those of the AcanthizrB, are dome-shaped. 



SERICORNIS OSCULANS {Gould). 



ALLIED SERICORNLS. 



SOUTH AUSTRALIA is the home of this species, which frequents most of the forests and gullies 

 which are thickly overgrown with scrub and creeping plants, among which it obtains without 

 trouble abundance of insects. 



In disposition it is very shy and timid, and when disturbed, creeps underneath any kind of 

 bush or creeper which is at hand and then makes off very swiftly. It is always seen on the ground, 

 its powers of flight being seldom, if ever, used. 



The difference in the plumage of the sexes is very slight, but the female is smaller 

 than the male. 



All the upper surface, wings, and tail, dark olive-brown ; spurious wing-feathers, black, margined 

 with white ; lores, black ; a line above the eye, greyish-white ; throat and chest, yellowish-white, 

 spotted with blackish-brown ; rest of under surface, yellow ; irides, yellow ; bill, brownish-black ; legs and 

 feet, yellow. 



Total length, 4^ inches ; bill, | inch ; wing, "2 { inches ; tail, 2 inches ; tarsi, £ inch. 

 Habitat : South Australia. 



SERICORNIS CITREOGULARIS (Gould). 



YELLOW-THROATED SERICORNIS. 



rnHE largest species of the genus Sericornis, namely, S. Citrcogularis, inhabits the brushes of New 

 South Wales, particularly those in the neighbourhood of the Liverpool range, and in the Illawarra 

 district. 



