Order PASSERIFORMES. Family SYLVIIDM. 
No. 567. 
MACCOYORNIS BROADBENTI. 
RUFOUS BRISTLE BIRD. 
(Plate 466, bottom figure.) 
Sphenura broadbenti McCoy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. III., Vol. XIX., p. 185, March 
1st, 1867 : near Belfast, in scrubs 24 miles from Portland Bay, Victoria. 
Sphenura broadbenti McCoy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. III., Vol. XIX., p. 185, 1867 ; Gould, 
Birds Austr., Suppl., pi. 25, pt. iv., Dec. 1st, 1867 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 106, 
1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 23, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 219, 1901 ; Hill, Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 163, 1903 (Vic.) ; Belcher, ib., Vol. III., p. 61, 1903 (Vic.) ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 246, 1904; Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 
134, 1907 (Vic.) ; id., ib., p. 137 (S.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 80, 
1908 ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 101, 1908 (Vic.) ; Ross, ib., Vol. XI., p. 119, 
pi. x., 1911 (Vic.) ; Hall, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1911, p. 33, pi. 4 (pterylography) ; 
S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 184, 1913 (S.A.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 69, 
pi. xin., fig. 5 (egg), 1913; Purnell, ib., Vol. XV., pp. 38-43, pi. iv., 1915 (Vic.). 
Sphenura litoralis Milligan, Emu, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 69, January 1st, 1902 : Ellensbrook, 
South-west Australia ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 39, 1903 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
2nd ed., p. Ill, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 80, 1908 ; Orton, 
Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 103, 1918 ; Ashby, ib., Vol. XX., p. 123, 1921. 
Sphenura broadbenti broadbenti Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 364, 1912. 
Sphenura broadbenti litoralis Mathews, ib. 
Sphenura broadbenti whitei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 3, p. 79, June 28th, 
1912 : Coorong, South Australia ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 184, 1913. 
Maccoyornis broadbenti broadbenti Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 230, 1913 ; Belcher, 
Birds Geelong, p. 290, 1914 ; Purnell, Emu, Vol. XIX., p. 236, 1920. 
Maccoyornis broadbenti whitei Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 231, 1913. 
Maccoyornis broadbenti litoralis Mathews, ib. ; Morgan, South Austr. Orn., Vol. IV., p. 17, 
1919 (S.A.). 
Distribution. Victoria, South Australia, and South-west Australia. 
Adult male. Crown of head and nape, chestnut with dark narrow edges to the feathers, 
which imparts a scaled appearance ; sides of crown and ear-coverts similar but 
uniform ; hind-neck, upper-back and scapulars, greyish bronze-brown like the 
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