Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 545. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
SERICORNIS FRONTALIS. 
SCRUB-WREN. 
(Plate 455, 2 middle figures.) 
Acanthiza frontalis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 226, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : No locality ; here restricted to Sydney (New South Wales). 
Acanthiza frontalis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 226, 
1827. 
Saxicola longirostris Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de l’Astrol. Zool., Vol. I., p. 200, pi. x., 
fig. 4 (pref. June 29th), 1830 : Western Port, Victoria. 
Sericornis frontalis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 58, 1838 (April) ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 133, Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxi. (Vol. III., 
pi. 49), Dec. 1st, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 359, 1865 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. VII., p. 303, 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. 245, 
1901 ; H. E. Hill, Emu, Vol. II., p. 163, 1903 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. 
No. 1, Vol. I., p. 299, 1904; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 76, 1908 ; A. G. 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 35, 1910 ; Ingle, ib., p. 123 ; Cleland, lb., Vol. XI., 
p. 86, 1911 (Food) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 141, 1915 ; Barrett, ib., Vol. XV., 
p. 190, 1916 ; Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., p. 89, 1920. IV 
Sericornis parvvlus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 58, April 1st 1838 : New South 
Wales ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 134, Dec. 1838. 
Sericornis parvula parvula Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 354, 1912. 
Sericornis parvula Jiarterti Mathews, ib., Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cape Otway, Victoria ; id., Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 59, 1912. 
Sericornis parvula rosince Mathews, ib : Mt. Lofty, South Australia ; id., Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 44, 1912 (nest and eggs). 
Sericornis longirostris longirostris Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 220, 1913. 
Sericornis longirostris harterti Mathews, ib., p. 221 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 282, 1914. 
Sericornis longirostris rosince Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 221, 1913. 
Sericornis longirostris parvulus Mathews, ib. 
Sericornis frontalis frontalis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 98, 1914. 
Sericornis frontalis longirostris Mathews, ib. 
