Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family SYLVIID/E. 
No. 549. 
TASMAN ORNIS HUMILIS. 
BROWN SCRUB-WREN. 
(Plate 457.) 
Sericornis humilis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (58), April 1, 1838 : Tasmania 
= South Tasmania. 
Sericornis humilis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (58), April 1st, 1838 ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond)., 1837, p. 133, Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xix. (Vol. III., pi.. 
47), June 1st, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 356, 1865 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. VII., p. 310, 1883 ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 240, 1887 ; 
id., ib., 1887, p. 90, 1888 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 26, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 251, 
1901; Littler, Emu, Vol. II., p. 169, 1903; A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 207; id., ib., 
Vol. III., p. 161 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 305, 1904 ; Legge, 
Emu, Vol. IV., p. 103, 1905 ; A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 121 ; Mellor, ib., Vol. VI., p. 160, 
1907 ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. VII., p. 24, 1907 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 77, 
1908 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 36, 1910 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasmania, 
p. 41, 1910 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 356, 1912 ; Dove, Emu, Vol. XV., 
p. 238, 1916 ; Lord, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 105, 1919. 
Sericornis gularis Legge, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XIII., p. 84, Oct. 8th, 1896 : Kent Group, 
Bass Straits ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 121, 1905 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 77, 1908. 
Sericornis frontalis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 355, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., 
p. 220, 1913. 0 
Not frontalis Vigors and Horsfield, 1827. 
Sericornis flindersi White and Mellor, Emu, Vol. XII., pt. 3, p. 165, Jan. 1st, 1913 : Flinders 
Island, Furneaux Group. 
Sericornis insularis Cole, Emu, Vol. XIII., pt. 2, p. 74, Oct. 1st, 1913 : Forsyth Island, 
Furneaux Group. 
Sericornis longirostris insularis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. xxvi., 1913. 
Tasmanornis humilis humilis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 222, 1913. 
Tasmanornis humilis flindersi Mathews, ib., p. 223. 
Tasmanornis humilis tregellasi Mathews, Austr. Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 99, Sept. 24th, 
1914 : King Island, Bass Straits. 
Tasmanornis humilis gularis Mathews, Emu, Vol. XVI,, p. 35, 1916. 
Tasmanornis humilis insularis Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Tasmania and the Islands of Bass Straits. 
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