Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 456. 
Family MTJSCICAPIDjE. 
PCECILODRYAS SUPERCILIOSA. 
WHITE-BROWED ROBIN. 
(Plate 388.) 
Petroica SUPERCILIOSA Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1846, p. 106, Jan. 26th, 1847 : 
near Burdekin Lakes, Queensland. 
Petroica superciliosa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1846, p. 106, Jan. 26th, 1847; id., 
Birds Austr., pt. xxvi. (Yol. III., pi. 9), March 1st, 1847. 
Pcecilodryas superciliosa Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 289, 1865 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Yol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. 
IV., p. 242, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 149, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. I., p. 178, 1903 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 15, 1899 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 64, 1908 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 237, 1910 ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 175, 1913 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 166, 1914 ; Campbell 
and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 21, 1917 ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 196. 
Pachycephala superciliosa superciliosa Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 311, 1912. 
Pcecilodryas superciliosa superciliosa Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 175, 1913. 
Pcecilodryas superciliosa yorki Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 83, May 
25th, 1916 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cape York to Burdekin Lakes). 
Adult male. General colour above dusky -brown including the crown of the head, sides of 
the hinder-face, entire back, scapulars, lesser upper wing-coverts and innermost 
secondaries ; bastard-wing, median, greater, and primary-coverts and flight-quills 
sooty-black ; outer edge of wing white ; a broad band of white across the basal 
portion of the primary and secondary-quills, which extends along the margins of 
the inner webs, some of the outer edges narrowly margined with white which becomes 
broader at the tips ; middle tail-feathers uniform blackish-brown, the outer feathers 
tipped with white which increases in extent towards the outermost ; lores and 
rictal bristles black ; a white supraloral streak which extends over the eye and 
along the sides of the crown ; an irregular mark under the eye, throat, middle of 
abdomen, under tail-coverts and axillaries white ; breast and sides of body pale 
ash-grey ; thighs blackish with white tips to the feathers, under wing-coverts and 
basal portion of quill-lining white ; a blackish patch near the edge of the wing ; 
remainder of quill-lining dusky-brown with whitish inner margins ; lower aspect 
of tail dusky -brown with white tips to the lateral feathers. Eyes brown ; feet and 
bill black. Total length 170 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 75, tail 61, tarsus 21. 
Figured. Collected at Inkerman Springs, North Queensland, in September 1907. 
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