Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 426. 
Family A TRIG HORN I T HI DAS. 
ATRICHORNIS RUFESCENS. 
RUFOUS SCRUB BIRD. 
(Plate 373.) 
Atrichia rueescens Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1866, p. 438, April 1st, 1867 : 
Bowling Creek, Richmond River, New South Wales. 
Atrichia rufescens Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1866, p. 438, 1867 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr. SuppL, pt. iv., pi. 26, Dec. 1st, 1867; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 660, 1890 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. 
I., p. 505, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 52, 1906. 
Atrichornis rufescens Stejneger, Standard Nat. Hist., Vol. IV., p. 462, 1885 ; Mathews, 
Hand! Birds Austral., p. 60, 1908 ; Jackson, Emu, Vol. X., p. 327, 1911 ; Mathews, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 299, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 162, 1913 ; Ramsay, 
Emu, Vol. XIX., p. 5, 1919. 
Atrichornis rufescens tweedi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 71, July 21st, 1917 : 
Tweed River, N.S.W. 
Atrichornis rufescens rufescens Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. New r South Wales (Richmond River and Tweed River districts, and as 
far south as the Bellinger River). 
Adult jnale. General colour above, including the head, back, wings, and tail, golden 
olive-brown barred with dark brown and with a rufous tinge on the outer aspect of 
the quills, upper tail-coverts and tail ; inner-webs of flight-quills uniform brown ; 
base of fore-head, lores, and sides of face rather paler than the crown ; throat 
and breast isabelline with a pale ferruginous tinge, the feathers on the middle of 
the lower throat dark brown at their base, which gives a barred appearance ; lower- 
breast, abdomen, and flanks dark brown with ferruginous, or whitish tips to 
the feathers ; middle of abdomen ferruginous-buff ; under tail-coverts rufous ; 
under wing-coverts and quill-lining pale brown ; lower aspect of tail like its upper- 
surface but somewhat paler. Total length 165 mm. ; culmen 14, wing 65, tail 
70, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected on the Tweed River, northern New South Wales, 
in August 1882, and is the type of A. r. tweedi Mathews. 
Adult female. Not described. 
Nest. “ Dome-shaped, with side entrance ; constructed of dead leaves, ferns and twigs, 
etc. ; lined inside with a curious whitish cardboard-like material, and situated in a 
clump of grass about six inches from the ground. Dimensions : length 9 inches, 
breadth 6 inches entrance, 2\ inches across.” (Campbell.) 
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