Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 506. 
Family CIN CLOSOMA TIDM. 
DRYMODES BRUNNEOPYGIA. 
SCRUB ROBIN. 
(Plate 428.) 
Drymodes brunneopygia Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 170, July 1841 : 
Belts of the Murray, South Australia. 
Drymodes* brunneopygia Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 170, July 1841 ; id., 
Birds Austr., pt. vm. (Vol. III., pi. 10), Sept. 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 290, 1865 ; Biggies, Ornith. Austr., pt. vm., 1866 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 343, 
1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 28, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 261, 1901 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 320, 1904 ; Mathews, Hand!. Birds Austral., 
p. 70, 1908 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 133, 1909 (Vic.) ; Hah, ib., Vol . IX., p. 128, 
1910 (Eyre’s Peninsula) ; Howe, ib., p. 231 (Vic.) ; Wilson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 33, 
1912 (Vic.) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 38, 1913 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. 
XV., p. 160, 1916 (S.A.). 
Drymceodus pallidus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 344, (pref. July 1st) 1883 : 
Shark’s Bay, West Australia ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 62, 1915 (re North’s 
omission). 
Drymodes pallidus Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 28, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 262, 1901 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 70, 1908. 
Drymodes brunneopygia brunneopygia Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 332, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 199, 1913. 
Drymodes brunneopygia victories Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 332, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Kow Plains, Victoria ; id. , List Birds Austr., p. 199, 1913. 
Drymodes brunneopygia pallida Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 332, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 199, 1913 ; Carter, Ibis, 1921, p. 54. 
Distribution. The interior districts of Victoria, South Australia, and South-west and 
mid- West Australia. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface mouse-brown including the top of the 
head, sides of the neck, hind-neck, back scapulars, margins of the innermost second- 
aries, and upper wing-coverts ; median and greater upper wing-coverts blackish- 
brown tipped with white ; primary-coverts uniform blackish-brown ; flight-quills 
* Also spelt Drymaozdus, Drymos, etc. 
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