LITTLE SCRUB-WREN. 
Very little has been recorded about this species. The bird figured and 
described differs from Gould’s type in having the back olive and not brown, 
and may be called 
Sericornis minimus yorJci subsp. nov. 
Writing about eggs, A. J. Campbell observed : “ Some sets of the various 
Sericornes are very similar to each other, but whether or not Sericornis minimus 
is merely a northern form of S. frontalis, its eggs differ considerably from those 
of the southern bird. The lengthened and acorn-like eggs of S. citreigularis 
are exceedingly singular.” 
Macgillivray has recorded : “ The Little Scrub- Wren ( Sericornis minimus ) 
is numerous in the Cape York scrubs, where they fossick for food amongst the 
dead leaves and debris on the ground or amongst the masses of fallen vines 
and trees. They are easily approached. Average length of male, about 4| 
inches, irides deep orange-scarlet ; upper mandible pale brown, lower brownish- 
white. Stomach contents, insects.” 
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