BROWN TREECREEPER. 
streaked with black and washed with buff ; under tail-coverts white, banded with 
black, and broadly margined with fulvous ; edge of wing, under wing-coverts, and 
axillaries pale buff ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with a patch of pale 
buff ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but paler. Eyes brown, feet 
black, bill dark slate. Total length 160 mm. ; culrnen 15, wing 95, tail 70, tarsus 26. 
Collected at Parwan, Victoria, on the 19th of May, 1910, and is the type of C. p. 
victories. 
Immature (?) male . Crown of head, fore-head, nape and hind-neck dark lead-grey; 
sides of face and sides of neck pale ash-grey ; ear-coverts havo dark integrated 
feathers with pale shaft-stroaks ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and 
upper wing-coverts dark smoke-brown : greater-coverts and primary-coverts black ; 
bastard-wing dark brown narrowly fringed with white ; flight-quills blackish with 
a broad pale buff band across the feathers, the innermost secondaries and tips of 
the series greyish-brown ; tail brown with a broad blackish subterminal and greyish- 
brown tips to the feathers ; lores blackish ; rictal-bristles black ; chin white with 
black hair-like tips to the feathers ; throat whitish ; breast ash-grey ; abdomen 
white narrowly lined with dark brown and tinged with pale smoke-brown ; sides 
of body also pale smoke-brown more or less streaked with white ; thighs dusky; 
under tail-coverts pale smoke-brown with white shaft-lines which are fringed with 
dark brown; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale buff ; under-surface of flight- 
quills grejdsh-brown with a patch of pale buff ; lower aspect of tail similar to its 
upper-surface. Eyes brown, feet slate, bill blackish, lower mandible dark brown. 
Total length 155 mm. ; wing 87, tail 58, tarsus 21. Figured. Collected at Inna- 
mincka, Central Australia, on the 30tli of September, 1916, and is Climacteris waitei 
S. A. White. (Top figure.) 
Immature female . Top of head dusky-grey, becoming paler on the sides of the crown and 
sides of face ; back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark rust-brown; 
upper wing-coverts similar to the back, but darker and inclining to blackish-brown 
on the greater series, bastard-wing, and primary-coverts ; flight-quills dark brown, 
slightly paler on the outer edges and tips of the secondaries, and a pale cinnamon 
band across the inner webs extending to the outer webs of the outer secondaries ; 
tail black, becoming pale brown on the middle feathers and still paler at the tips 
of the lateral feathers ; lores and feathers in front of the eye black and bristly in 
texture ; throat, fore-neck, and sides of neck dark ash-grey; breast and abdomen 
white with dark margins to the feathers which impart a streaked appearance ; sides 
of body similar but somewhat strongly tinged with fulvous ; under tail-coverts 
white with black twin markings and tinged with buff ; axillaries and under wing- 
coverts cream-w'hite ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown with a patch of 
whitish-buff ; low T er aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but much paler. 
Eyes brown, feet slate, bill horn, under mandible white, gape white. Collected 
at Fern Tree Gully, Victoria, on the 7tli of November, 1911. 
Eggs* Two to three eggs form the clutch. A clutch of three taken at Belltrees, upper 
Hunter River, New South Wales, on the 19th of July, 1913, is of a pinkish-white 
ground-colour, covered nearly all over with small spots and specks of pinkish-red and 
purplish markings, and all closely set together. Veiy roundish in form ; surface 
of shell fine and smooth, and slightly glossy. 22 mm. by 18-19. 
Nest. Placed in the hollow limb or trunk of a tree, and composed of fur, hair, fine grasses, 
etc., and situated at heights varying from three to thirty feet or more up from 
the ground. 
Breeding-months . July to October. 
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