Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 548. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
SERICORNIS MACULATUS. 
SPOTTED SCRUB-WREN. 
(Plate 456.) 
Sericornis MACULATUS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1847, p. 2, March 29th : (Albany), 
West Australia. 
Sericornis maculatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1847, p. 2 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxvn. 
(Vol. III., pi. 51), June 1st, 1847 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 361, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 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 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., p. 17, 1903 (W.A.); Carter, id., ib., p. 40, 
(W.A.) ; Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., p. 9, 1904 (W.A.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. 1, Vol. I., p. 304, 1904 ; Lawson, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 130, 1905 (W.A.) ; Ashby, 
ib., Vol. V., p. 27, 1905 (Kangaroo Island) ; A. G. Campbell, id., ib., p. 142 
(Kangaroo Island) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 77, 1908 ; Gibson, Emu, 
Vol. VIII., p. 66, 1908 (W.A.) ; A. G. Campbell, ib., Vol. X., p. 36, 1910 ; Cleland, 
ib., Vol. XI., p. 87, 1911 (Food) ; Whitlock, id., ib., p. 241, 1912 (W.A.) ; S. A. 
White, ib., Vol. XII., pp. 3, 7, 8, 1912 ; id., ib., p. 184, 1913 ; Orton, ib., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 101, 1918 ; Campbell, ib., p. 259, 1919 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 127, 
1921 ; Ashby, id., ib., p. 134; Alexander, id., ib., p. 166. 
Sericornis osculans Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 184 7, p. 2, March 29th : South Australia ; 
id., Birds Austr., pt. xxvn. (Vol. III., pi. 48), June 1st, 1847 ; id., Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 358, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 
1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 309, 1883; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 26, 1899; Campbell, Nests, 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol, I., p. 250, 1901 ; H. E. Hill, Emu, Vol. II., p. 163, 1903 ; 
A. G. Campbell, ib., Vol. VI., p. 120, 1907 ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 7, 1901 ; A. G. 
Campbell, ib., Vol. X., p. 35, 1910. 
Sericornis balstoni Grant, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. XX III., p. 72, May 7th, 1909 : 
Bernier Island, West Australia ; Ibis, 1909, p. 677, pi. ix., f. 1. 
Sericornis maculata maculata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 355, 1912 ; id. , List 
Birds Austr., p. 222, 1913. 
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