Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 615. 
Family CLIMAGTERIDJE. 
CLIMACTERIS PICUMNUS. 
BROWN TREECREEPER. 
(Plate 498.) 
Climacteris PICUMNUS Temminck and Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Oiseaux, 47 e livr. (Vol. III., 
pi. 281, f.l), June 26th, 1824 : “A la c6te septentrionale de la Nouvelle Hollande” 
= Queensland. 
Climacteris picumnus Temminck and Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Oiseaux, 47 e livr. (Vol. III., 
pi. 281, f.l), 1824; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 42, 1906; 
Howe, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 233, 1910 (Vic.) ; Wilson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 37, 1912 (Vic.); 
Howe, ib., Vol. XXI., p. 37, 1921 (Review). 
Climacteris scandens (error) Gould, Birds Austr., pt. iv. (Vol. IV., pi. 93), Sept. 1st, 1841; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 598, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 191, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 14, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 35, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 334, 1901 ; 
A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 15, 1902 (Vic.); Hill, ib., p. 165, 1903 (Vic.); 
Legge, ib., Vol. III., p. 181, 1904 (Tas.); Littler, ib., Vol. IV., p. 142, 1905 (Tas.); 
A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 181, 1907 ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 8 (Vic.); 
G. Hill, ib., p. 18 (Vic.) ; Austin, ib., p. 30 (N.S.W.); Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 89, 1908; Gubanyi, Emu, Vol. X., p. 120, 1910 (N.S.W.) ; Stone, ib., 
Vol. XII., p. 116, 1912 (Vic.); Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 43, 1913 (Vic.); 
S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XHL, p. 128, 1914 (S.A.); Cleland, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 282, 
1919 (N.S.W.); id., ib., Vol. XXI., pi. xxix., p. 143, 1921 (photos). 
Climacteric leucophcea (error) Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 336, 1883. 
Clmaderis picumnus picumnus Mathews, Nov Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 382, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Climacteris picumnus australis Mathews, ib. : Murray Flats, South Australia, 
Climacteris picumnus victories Mathews, ib. : Parwan, Victoria. 
Neodwia picumna picumna Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 251, 1913. 
Neodima picumna victories Mathews, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 315, 1914. 
Neodima picumna australis Mathews, ib. 
Climacteris waitei S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., pt. 3, p. 168, Jan. 15th, 1917: Innamincka, 
(Central) South Australia ; id., ib., Vol. XVII., pt. 1, pi. 1, 1917 ; id., Trans. Roy. 
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