Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 546. 
Family SYLVIIDJE. 
SERICORNIS LJWIGASTER. 
BUFF-BREASTED SCRUB-WREN. 
(Plate 455, bottom right-hand figure.)* 
Sericornis LiEViGASTER Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London) 1847, p. 3, March 29th : 
Lawson Ranges, near Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. 
Sericornis Icevigaster^ Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 1847, p. 3; id. , Birds Austr., pt. 
xxvii. (Vol. III., pi. 50), June 1st, 1847; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 360, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 307, 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. 249, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 300, 1904; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., p. 76, 1908 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 36, 
1910 ; A. J. Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 27, 1917. 
Sericornis parvula Icevigaster Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 355, March 31st, 1912. 
Sericornis parvula herbertoni Mathews, ib. : Herberton, North Queensland. 
Sericornis longirostris Icevigaster Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 221, 1913. 
Sericornis frontalis Icevigaster Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 98, 1914. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Herberton) to Northern New South Wales. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface ochreous-brown including the top of 
the head, sides of the face, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, wings, and tail ; some of 
the median upper wing-coverts blackish tipped with white like the bastard-wing ; 
primary-coverts uniform black ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish edged with 
whitish ; outer edge of wing greyish-white ; lateral tail-feathers broadly banded 
with black on the apical portion and tipped with white ; a white supraloral streak 
which extends over the eye and along the sides of the crown ; the feathers in front 
of and below the eye brownish ; chin and throat greyish- white with dark centres to 
some of the feathers ; breast, abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts 
yellowish-white with dark bases to the last ; axillaries and lesser under wing- 
coverts yellowish-white ; greater series of under wing-coverts and under-surface 
of flight- quills dark brown with slightly paler margins to the latter ; lower aspect 
of tail bronze-brown with a broad blackish sub-apical band and greyish-white tips 
to the feathers. Eyes pale yellow, bill dark horn ; feet flesh. Total length 117 mm. ; 
culmen 11, wing 62, tail 47, tarsus 21. Figured. Collected at Herberton, North 
Queensland, on the 28th of November, 1910, and is the type of Sericornis herbertoni . 
Adult male has the toes blackish. 
* The Plate is lettered Sericornis herbertoni. 
| Also spelt loevigastra. 
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