Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 542. 
Family SYLVIIDM 
PYRRHOLiEMUS BRUNNEUS. 
RED-THROAT. 
(Plate 453, two left-hand figures). 
Pyrrhol jemtt s brunneus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 173, July 1841 : Belts 
of the Murray, South Australia. 
Pyrrholcemus brunneus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.), 1840, p. 173, 1841 ; id.. Birds Austr., 
pt. xvn. (Vol. III., pi. 68), Dec. 1, 1844; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 384, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 242, 
1901; North Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 307, 1904; Macdonald, 
Emu, Vol. VI., p. 141, 1907 ; Whitlock, ib., Vol. IX., p. 201, 1910 (W.A.) ; 
Orton & Sandland, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 79, 1913 (W.A.) ; S. A. White, 
ib., Vol. XIII., pp. 27, 127, 1913-14 (S.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. XV., p. 160, 1916; id.’ 
ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 22, 1918 ; id., Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXXVIII., 
p. 431, Dec. 1914; Vol. XXXIX., p. 753, Dec. 1915; Vol. XLI., p. 459, Dec. 24* 
1917 ; Cheney, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 210, 1915 (Vic.) ; Ashby, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 234, 
1917 (S.A.) ; A. S. Le Souef, ib., Vol. XX., p. 142, 1921 (W.A.). 
Acanthiza brunnea Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I, p. 189, 1848. 
Sericornis brunnea Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 302, 1883 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 26, 1899 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 37, 1903 (W.A.) ; Milligan, ib., p. 222, 
1904 (W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. IV., p. 9, 1904 (W.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 76, 1908 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 133, 1909 (Vic.) ; Crossmann, ib., Vol. IX., 
p. 88 (W.A.) ; Howe, ib., p. 231, 1910 (Vic.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. X., p. 36 (Vic.) ; 
Cleland, ib., Vol. XII., p. 12, 1912 (Food, Queensland); Wilson, ib., p. 35 (Vic.); 
S. A. White, ib., p. 128, 1913 (S.A.) 
Sericornis brunnea brunnea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 353, 1912. 
Sericornis brunnea pallescens Mathews, ib., Jan. 31, 1912 : Bore Well, West Australia. 
Pyrrholcemus brunneus brunneus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 219, 1913 ; S. A. White, 
Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 189, 1915 (S.A.). 
Pyrrholcemus brunneus jxdlescens Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 219, 1913 ; Carter, Ibis, 
1921, p. 60. 
Distribution. Victorian Mallee, South Australia, Central Australia, West Australia, 
Queensland. 
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