Order PASSERIFORMES. Family SY IV 1 1 D,E. 
No. 565. 
DASYORNIS BRACHYPTERUS. 
BRISTLE BIRD. 
(Plate 466, middle figure.)* 
T Urdus BRACHYPTERUS Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xliii. (after May 30th), 1801 : New 
South Wales, based on Watling drawing No. 154. 
T urdus brachypterus Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xliii., 1801. 
Shortwinged Thr(ush) Latham, Gen. Synops. Suppl. n., p. 187, 1801. 
Sphenura brachyptera Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Zool. Mus. Berol., p. 40, 1823 ; Gould, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Yol. I., p. 342, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. I., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 104, 1883 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 23, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Yol. I., p. 218, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 244, 1904 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 79, 
1908 ; Ross, Emu, Yol. XI, p. 119, 1911 (Vic.) ; Mathews, Nov. Zool, Vol. VIII, 
p. 363, 1912 ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. XIII, p. 69, pi. m, f. 6 (egg), 1913 ; Mathews, 
List Birds Austr, p. 230, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV, p. 142, 1915 (Vic.) ; 
Le Souef and Macpherson, Emu, Vol. XX, p. 88, 1920, (N.S.W.). 
lllalurus pectoralis Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool, Vol. XIII, pt. ii, p. 224, Feb. 18th, 
1826 : new name for T. brachypterus Latham. 
Dasyornis australis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV, p. 232, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : New South Wales; Gould, Birds Austr, pt. v. (Vol. Ill, pi. 32), 
Dec. 1st, 1841. \\ 
Sphenura brachyptera brachyptera Mathews, Austral Av. Rec, Vol. Ill, pt. 3, p. 61, 
April 7th, 1916. 
Sphenura brachyptera victoriae Mathews, ib . : Victoria (Gippsland). 
Distribution. New South W T ales (Coastal from Richmond River to near Victoria), Victoria 
(Goulburn River and Gippsland). 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface rust-brown, including the head, back, 
wings, and tail, inclining to rufous-brown on the outer aspect of the wings ; sides 
of face similar to the crown but paler ; a slightly indicated pale superciliary streak ; 
rictal bristles sparsely developed ; the feathers at the base of the forehead stiffened 
and bristly ; chin, greyish-white with hair-like tips to the feathers ; throat also 
greyish-white ; sides of neck, and sides of breast greyish bronze-brown ; middle 
of breast and middle of abdomen greyish-white with blackish bases to the feathers ; 
* This Plate is lettered Sphenura brachyptera. 
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