BROWN SCRUB-WREN. 
paler on the inner webs towards the base and rufous-brown on the outer webs ; 
upper tail-coverts and tail rufous-brown ; a white supraloral streak which extends 
over to behind the eye ; loral spot blackish ; a line below the eye and ear-coverts 
dusky brown ; chin and sides of throat dull white ; middle of throat dusky brown 
more or less streaked with white ; fore-neck pale ochreous ; middle of abdomen 
yellowish-white ; sides of body and under tail-coverts rust brown ; under wing- 
coverts dull white. Total length 132 mm. Collected on the Kent Group, Bass 
Straits. 
Adult female similar to the bird described, but paler and the characters everywhere more 
faintly pronounced. Total length 132 mm. ; culmen 16, wing 61, tail 51, tarsus 25. 
Young bird. Reddish-brown above ; bastard-wing pale brown with white tips to the 
feathers ; the white line above the lores scarcely indicated ; no white streak on the 
sides of the throat ; chin and entire throat dull white- washed with rufous-brown ; 
remainder of the under-surface, the sides of the body and under tail-coverts paler 
rust-brown, the under wing-coverts also of the latter colour. Collected on the 
Kent Group. 
Adult. Pale rufous-brown above, including the head, back, wings, and tail ; bastard- 
wing dark brown with whitish margins to the feathers and indistinct buffish tips 
to the major coverts ; throat, breast, and middle of abdomen whitish-grey ; sides 
of body pale rust-brown becoming darker on the lower flanks ; under wing- coverts 
pale buff. Total length 122 mm. ; culmen 15, wing 56, tail 50, tarsus 23. Collected 
on King Island. 
Adult male. Upper-surface, chestnut brown including the head, entire back, wings, and 
tail ; bastard-wing dark brown edged with white at the tips of the feathers like 
some of the outer greater coverts ; primary-coverts uniform blackish ; lores white 
as also an indistinct line above, the eye ; a spot in front of the eye, a line below 
the latter, and the ear-coverts slate-brown ; chin and a line on each side of the 
throat white with minute dark margins to the feathers ; middle of throat dark 
brown the feathers fringed with white ; breast and middle of abdomen pale sulphur- 
yellow, more or less mixed with pale dusky-brown, more particularly on the chest ; 
sides of body and under tail-coverts rufous-brown. Total length 133 mm. ; culmen 
16, wing 61, tail 49, tarsus 25. Collected on King Island. 
Young male. General colour above rufous-brown, including the head, back, wings, and 
tail ; bastard-wing dark brown edged with white at the tip of one feather and only 
a slight indication of a pale margin to some of the others ; lores more or less white 
at the base ; throat and cheeks pale ash-grey ; middle of abdomen whitish ; sides 
of body and under tail-coverts rust-brown ; under wing-coverts sandy-buff. 
Collected on King Island. 
Immature female. General colour of the upper-surface smoke-brown including the top 
of the head, back, wings, and tail ; the tips of the feathers of the bastard-wing and 
greater upper wing-coverts fringed with whitish ; outer edge of wing similar ; primary- 
coverts and inner webs of flight-quills dark hair-brown fringed with white on the 
inner edges of the latter ; sides of face similar in colour to the top of the head but 
somewhat paler and having pale shaft-lines to the feathers ; base of lores and 
eyelids greyish-white ; chin and throat also greyish with minute blackish hair-like 
tips to the feathers ; breast pale smoke-brown like the thighs and under tail- 
coverts ; middle of abdomen whitish ; sides of body smoke-brown with dark 
lead-grey bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of quills 
below whitish-buff ; remainder of quill-lining hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail 
similar but rather paler. Collected on Deal Island, Bass Strait, on the 6th of 
December, 1908. 
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