Order PASSERIFORMES. Family SYLVIIDM 
No. 531. 
CHTHONICOLA SAGITTATA. 
LITTLE FIELD- WREN. 
(Plate 446.) 
Sylvia sagittata Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. liv., (after May 30), 1801 : New 
South Wales. Based on Watling Painting No. 196. 
Sylvia sagittata Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., pt. liv., 1801. 
Streaked Warbler Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 247, 1801. 
Sylvia nitida Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XI., p. 197, June 21, 1817 : New 
South Wales. 
Sylvia pyrrhophrys Vieillot, ib., p. 219 : New South Wales, ex Temminck MS. 
Anthus minimus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.)Vol. XV., p. 230, Feb. 17, 
1827 : New South Wales. 
Chthonicola minima Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxvii. (Vol. III., pi. 72), June 1st, 1847. 
Cdlamanthus strigatus Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 164, 1848. 
Chthonicola sagittata Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 280, 1850 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 390, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 186, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 290, 1883; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 24, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 281, 1901; Hill, Emu, Vol. II., p. 163, 
1903 (Vie.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 261, 1904 ; Hill, Emu, 
Vol. VI., p. 178, 1907 (Vie.) ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 74, 1908 ; Cleland, 
Emu, Vol. XII. p. 11, 1912 (Food); Lawrence and Littlejohns, ib., Vol. XIV., 
p. 220, pi. xxiv., 1915 ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 280, 1919 (N.S.W.) 
Chthonicola sagittata sagittata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 346, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 212, 1913. 
Chthonicola sagittata inexpectata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 346, Jan. 31, 1912 : 
(Mitcham) Victoria ; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 59, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., 
p. 213, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 270, 1914. 
Chthonicola sagittata queenslandica Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I.,pt. 5, p. 119, Dec. 24, 
1912 (Tambo) Queensland ; id. , List Birds Austr., p. 213, 1913. 
Distribution. South Queensland : New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia. 
Adult male. Crown of head blackish-brown with pale pear-shaped centres to the feathers ; 
back blackish, the feathers broadly margined with grey ; upper wing-coverts 
olive-brown ; flight- quills dark hair-brown with pale margins on both the outer and 
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