Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family GINCLOSOMA T1I)M. 
No. 507. 
DRYMODES SUPERCILIARIS. 
NORTHERN SCRUB ROBIN. 
(Plate 429.) 
Drymodes SUPERCILIARIS Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. 105 : Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Drymodes superciliaris Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. 105; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1850, p. 200, 1851 ; id., Rirds Austr. Suppl., pi. 16 (pt. i.), March 15th, 
1851 ; id., Handb. Rirds Austr., Vol. I., p. 291, 1865 ; Giggles, Ornith. Austr., 
pt. vm., 1866; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 52, 1876; id., 
ib., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 344, 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. 262, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 322, 1904 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 70, 1908 ; 
id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 332, 1912; id., List Birds Austr., p. 199, 1913; 
Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 170, 1914 (N.Q.) ; id., ib., Vol. XVII., p. 201, 
1918 (N.Q.). 
Drymodes su'perciliaris colcloughi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, Sept. 24-th, 
p. 97, 1914: Roper River, Northern Territory. ' 
Distribution. North Queensland. Eastern Northern Territory. 
Admit male. General colour of the upper-surface rust-brown, including the top of the 
head, hind-neck, entire back, scapulars, and central tail-feathers ; upper tail- 
coverts chestnut ; lesser upper wing-coverts drab-brown, marginal coverts, bastard- 
wing, median, and greater wing-coverts black tipped with white ; primary-coverts 
black, white at the base on the inner webs ; flight-quills blackish-brown edged 
with white or drab on the outer webs and a patch of white at the base of the inner 
webs ; outer tail-feathers blackish more or less fringed with chestnut towards 
the base and tipped with white, the outermost feather on each side narrowly edged 
with white along the outer web ; lores white ; a black spot above the eye and a 
black patch below the eye ; an eyebrow above the eye and ear-coverts buffy- 
white ; chin and throat pure white ; breast drab-grey ; middle of abdomen white ; 
thighs greyish-white ; sides of body fawn colour ; under tail-coverts very pale fawn 
colour ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white with brown bases to some of the 
feathers and a brown patch on the margin of the wing ; under-surface of flight-quills 
dark brown, white at the base and along the margins ; lower aspect of tail blackish 
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