Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 547. 
Family SYLVIID/E. 
SERICORNIS MINIMUS. 
LITTLE SCRUB-WREN. 
(Plate 455, top figure.) 
Sericornis minimus Gould, Birds New Guinea, pt. i. (Vol. III., pi. 7), Dec. 1st, 1875 : 
Cape York. 
Sericornis minimus Gould, Birds New Guinea, pt. 1. (Vol. III., pi. 7), Dec. 1st, 1875 : 
Cape York, Queensland; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; 
id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 26, 1899 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 300, 1904 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 76, 1908 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 37, 1910 ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 27, 
1911 ; A. J. Campbell, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 67, 1913; Macgillivray, ib., p. 171, 1914; 
id., ib., Vol. XVII., p. 201, 1918. 
Sericornis brunneopygius Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 53, Feb. 1876 : Cape 
York, Queensland. 
Sericornis parvula minima Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 354, 1912. 
Sericornis longirostris minimus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 221, 1913. 
Sericornis frontalis minimus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 98, 1914. 
Distribution. Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland. 
Adult male. Crown of head dark fulvous-brown ; back, scapulars, and upper wing\coverts 
olive ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black tipped with white ; outer aspect 
of flight-quills olive-brown, inner webs dark brown with pale edges ; upper tail- 
coverts and tail rust-brown ; sides of face like the top of the head ; base of forehead, 
lores, and fore-part of eye-ring blackish ; remainder of eye-ring and loral streak, 
which extends over the eye white ; chin, cheeks, and throat white with a few dark 
specklings on the last ; breast, abdomen, lower flanks, and under tail-coverts whitish 
sulphur-yellow ; sides of body somewhat darker ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
whitish ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with pale buff edges ; lower 
aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but paler. Eyes crimson ; bill pink 
with culmen brown ; feet pink. Total length 10 1 mm. ; culmen 11, wing 58, 
tail 40, tarsus 20. Figured., Collected at Piara Scrubs, Cape York, North Queens- 
land, on the 22nd of March, 1913. (Top figure.) 
Adidt female from same locality has lores brown. 
Immature female. General colour of the upper-surface ochreous-brown including the top 
of the head, entire back, wings, and tail ; bastard-wing and greater upper wing- 
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