FIELD- WREN. 
Calamanihus campestris dorrie Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 337, Jan. 31, 1912 : 
Dorrie Island, West Australia; id., List Birds Austr., p. 204, 1913. 
Calamanihus campestris wayensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 338, Jan. 31, 1912 : 
Lake Way, Mid-Westralia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 204, 1913. 
Calamanihus campestris macgillivmyi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. i., p. 8, 
Aug. 2, 1913 : Mt. Arrowsmith, Wyurra, Broken Hill, New South Wales ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 204, 1913. 
Calamanihus campestris hartogi Carter, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXXVII., p. 6, Oct. 24, 
1916; Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia; id., Ibis, 1917, p. 586; Whitlock, 
Emu, Vol. XX., p. 179, 1921 ; White, ib., p. 188, 1921. 
Calamanthus campestris peroni Mathews, Ibis, 1917, p. 586, Oct. 10 : Peron Peninsula, 
West Australia ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 179, 1921. 
Distribution. Interior of Southern Australia from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Mallee 
of Victoria, Eyre’s Peninsula, South-west Australia to Shark’s Bay and islands 
adjoining thereto. 
Adult male. Crown of head pale rufous with minute dark shaft-lines to the feathers ; 
back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts fulvous-brown ; bastard-wing, greater 
coverts, and inner secondaries centred with dark brown and margined with fulvous, 
or whitish ; flight-quills dark hair-brown, rather paler on the outer edges ; upper 
tail-coverts inclining to buffy-white at the tips ; tail rufous-brown with a blackish 
subterminal band, which is only slightly indicated on the middle feathers, and 
white or buffy-white tips to the feathers ; sides of face rather paler than the 
top of the head with white shaft-lines ; eyelids white ; a whitish supraloral streak 
which extends over the eye on to the sides of the crown ; throat and fore- 
neck dull white, streaked with dark brown or blackish ; breast and abdomen buffy- 
white, becoming darker and inclining to fulvous on the sides of the body and under 
tail-coverts ; thighs pale rust-colour ; axillaries and under wing-coverts cinnamon- 
rufous ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with pale edges ; lower aspect of 
tail greyish-brown at the base followed by a blackish band and whitish tip. Bill 
blackish-brown; eyes brownish-yellow, feet ashy-brown. Total length 115 mm. ; 
culmen 13, wing 55, tail 42, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected 60 miles west of 
Oodnadatta, Centralia, on the salt-bush plains. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head chestnut fading into greyish-brown on the nape, back, 
scapulars, and upper wing-coverts, with blackish-brown centres to the feathers ; 
flight-quills dark hair-brown with pale edges on both webs, tail rufous-brown at the 
base, becoming blackish-brown on the terminal portion, with pale margins to the 
feathers ; lores and eyelids whitish ; sides of face similar to the crown of the head 
with white shaft-streaks to the feathers ; throat, breast, and sides of body whitish 
with dark brown shaft-streaks to the feathers, which are absent on the lower abdomen ; 
thighs, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts cinnamon like the axillaries and 
inner margins of the quills below ; remainder of quill-lining dark hair-brown ; 
lower aspect of tail grey at the base becoming blackish towards the tip. Bill and 
feet horn-colour ; eyes light grey. Total length 120 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 54, 
tail 45, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected on Dorrie Island, West Australia, on 
the 15th of August, 1910, and is the type of Calamanthus campestris dorrie. 
Adidt male. Fore-part of head chestnut with dark centres to the feathers ; nape, hind- 
neck, entire back, and scapulars blackish with grey margins to the feathers which 
are much wider on the back ; upper wing-coverts rust-brown with dark centres 
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