SPOTTED SCRUB-WREN. 
Sericornis maculata warreni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 356, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Warren River, South-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 222, 1913 ; Carter, 
Ibis, 1921, p. 60. 
Sericornis maculata osculans Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 356, 1912 ; id. , List 
Birds Austr., p. 222, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 75, 1916. 
Sericornis maculata mellori Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 356, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 222, 1913. 
Sericornis maculata asJibyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTII., p. 356, Jam. 31st, 1912 : 
Kangaroo Island ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 222, 1913. 
Sericornis maculata balstoni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVJII., p. 356, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 222, 1913. 
Sericornis halmaturina Campbell, Emu, Vol. XI., pt. 4, p. 246, April 1st, 1912 : Kangaroo 
Island. 
Sericornis maculatus rymilli S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., pt. 1, p. 14, July 1, 1916 : Wedge 
Island, South Australia. 
Sericornis maculatus hartogi Carter, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XXXVTL, p. 6, Oct. 24th, 
1916 : .Dirk Hartog’s Island, West Australia; id., Ibis, 1917, p. 589; Whitlock, 
Emu, Vol. XX., p. 180, 1921. 
Sericornis maculatus geraldtonensis Mellor, South Austr. Ornithol., Vol. VI., pt. 2, p. 43, 
April 1st, 1921 : Geraldton District, Western Australia. 
Sericornis maculatus houtmanensis Zietz, ib., p. 44: Houtman’s Abrolhos, South-west 
Australia. 
Distribution. South Australia ; West Australia. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-parts mouse-brown, including the tops of the 
head, ear-coverts, back, wings, and tail ; terminal portions of the bastard-wing, 
median, and greater upper wing-coverts black margined with w r hite ; primary-coverts 
uniform black ; inner web of flight-quills dark brown ; outer tail-feathers broadly 
banded with black sub-apically and fringed with white at the tips ; base of forehead 
and fore part of face black ; a supraloral streak which extends over the eye, and 
a portion of the ej^elids white ; throat, breast, abdomen, and under tail-cpverts 
pale yellow with blackish centres, or blackish bases to the feathers ; flanks and thighs 
dusky grey ; under wing-coverts greyish-white ; under-surface of flight-quills 
hair-brown with pale edges ; lower aspect of tail similar in pattern to its upper- 
surface but paler in colour. Bill horn, with lighter base of lower mandible, feet 
dark. Total length 124 mm. ; culmen 11, wing 56, tail 49, tarsus 23. Figured. 
Collected at Cambrutha Creek, Clive Ranges, Central Eyre Peninsula, South 
Australia, in June 1911, and is the type of S. m. mellori. (Bottom figure.) 
Adult female similar to the adult male, but with the lores brown, not black. 
Adult male. General colour above dark chocolate-brown, including the crown of the head, 
sides of the face, back, wings and tail ; outer median and greater upper wing- 
coverts blackish, tipped with white like the bastard-wing ; primary-coverts uniform 
black ; outer primaries grey along the outer webs ; inner webs of flight-quills dark 
hair-brown with whitish margins ; outer tail-feathers banded with black subtenninally 
and edged with greyish-white at the tips ; base of forehead, lores, and fore-part of 
eye-ring black ; a white supraloral streak which extends above the eye and includes 
the eye-ring ; chin and a moustacial streak whitish ; throat and fore-neck greyish- 
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