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Order PASSERIFORMES. Family SYLVIIDM. 
No. 544. 
SERICORNIS MAGNIROSTRIS. 
LARGE-BILLED SCRUB-WREN. 
(Plate 454.) 
Acanthiza magnirostra Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iy., pi. (60), April 1st, 1838: 
New South Wales. 
Acanthiza magnirostra Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (60), 1838. 
Sericornis magnirostris Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xx. (Vol. III., pi. 52), Sept. 1st, 1845 ; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 362, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soo. (Lond.), 
1875, p. 590 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 305, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 26, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 247, 1901 ; Broadbent, Ibis, 1902, p. 381 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 302, 1904 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 76, 1908 ; 
A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 37, 1910 ; Mellor, ib., p. 209 ; Broadbent, ib., p. 237. 
Sericornis brevirostris Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 590, April 1st, 1876 : 
? lapsus for magnirostris or Smicrornis ? 
Sericornis magnirostris magnirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol, XVIII., p. 355, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 221, 1913. 
Sericornis magnirostris viridior Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 355, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Cairns, Queensland ; id., List Birds Australia, p. 221, 1913 ; Campbell and Barnard, 
Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 27, 1917. 
Sericornis magnirostris hoivei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 355, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Gippsland, Victoria; id., List Birds Austr., p. 221, 1913. 
Sericornis magnirostris bunya Mathews, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. XL., p. 106, March 31st, 
1920 : Bunya Mounts., South Queensland. 
Sericornis magnirostris heri Mathews, ib., Bellenclen Ker, North Queensland. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Queensland ; Victoria. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface ochreous-brown including the top of the 
head, entire back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts, with pale 
tips to the feathers of the bastard-wing and greater coverts ; outer aspect of flight- 
quills and tail-feathers inclining to rust-brown ; inner webs of flight-quills blackfsh ; 
sides of face, base of fore-head and throat buff, paler on the last ; breast and abdomen 
yellowish ; sides of body ochreous ; thighs and under tail-coverts fulvous ; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts yellowish-buff ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown 
with pale edges ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. Eyes brown, 
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