Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 550. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
OREOSCOPUS GUTTURALIS. 
FERN-WREN. 
(Plate 458.)* 
Sericornis GUTTURALIS De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., Vol. VI., pt. 5, p. 244, Oct. or 
Nov. 1889 : Herberton, North Queensland. 
Sericornis gutturalis De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., Vol. VI., p. 244, 1889 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 27, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 252, 
1901 ; Broadbent, Ibis, 1902, p. 381 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 357, 1912 ; 
A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 36, 1910. 
Oreoscopus gutturalis North, Agric. Gazette N.S.W., Vol. XVI., p. 247, 1905 ; Emu, Vol. V., 
p. 47, 1905; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 77, 1908; id., Emu, Vol. VIII., 
p. 34, Col. PI. A., July 1st, 1908; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 223, 1913; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., p. 427, 1914; Campbell & Barnard, Emu, 
Vol. XVII., p. 27, 1917. 
Oreoscopus gutturalis boweri Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 61, April 7th, 1916 : 
Cairns, Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cairns District only). 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface smoke brown including the top of the 
head, back, wings and tail ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish-brown ; sides of 
face similar to the crown with whitish shaft-lines to the feathers ; forehead and 
lores speckled with white ; chin and upper throat white, which extends in a line 
along the lower cheeks on to the sides of the neck ; lower throat and fore-neck 
black ; remainder of the under-parts similar to the upper-surface but much paler ; 
under-surface of flight-quills dark hair-brown like the lower aspect of the tail. 
Bill black, feet pale transparent brownish, eyes dark brown. Total length 133 mm. ; 
culmen 16, wing 71, tail 46, tarsus 24. Figured. Collected at Kurancla, Cairns, 
North Queensland, on the 30th of November, 1912. 
Adult female. General colour above dark chocolate-brown ; wing-coverts like the back ; 
primary-coverts and quills darker, dusky-brown, externally washed with the same 
chocolate-brown as the back ; lower back, rump, and upper-tail coverts like the 
rest of the back, but with a slight tinge of rusty brown ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 
slightly washed with rusty brown ; head decidedly darker than the back, the sides 
of the crown inclining to dull blackish, lores black, as well as the sides of the face 
and ear-coverts, the latter being rufescent-brown in the centre, this colour appearing 
as streaks ; below the eye a small white line along the eyelid, and above the eye, a 
superciliary streak, not very strongly defined, reaching from above the lores to 
above the hinder end of the ear-coverts, where the streak becomes whitish-brown 
* This Plate is lettered Collared Scrub-Wren. 
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