WHITE-THROATED TREECREEPER, 
Climaderis leucophcea leucophcea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 383, 1912; id ., 
List Birds Austr., p. 250, 1913; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 313, 1914. 
Climacteris leucophcea grisescens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 383, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
(Mount Lofty) South Australia; id ., List Birds Austr., p. 250, 1913. 
Distribution. Southern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South 
Australia. 
Adult male . Top of head including the fore-head and nape blackish with pale margins 
to the feathers which impart a scalloped appearance ; hind-neck, sides of neck, 
mantle, back, scapulars, lesser and inner upper wing-coverts sepia-brown ; bastard¬ 
wing dark brown becoming black on the outer greater coverts and primary-coverts ; 
flight-quills dark brown becoming black on the outer webs at the base of the 
primaries and on the subapical portion of the secondaries, which have the tips grey; 
a portion of the outer webs of the flight-quills are dark bronze-yellow and the inner 
webs buff or buffy-white, the innermost secondaries lead-grey ; rump, upper tail- 
coverts, and middle tail-feathers slate-grey, the subterminal portion of the lateral 
ones blackish-brown ; lores, feathers below the eye and ear-coverts whitish inter¬ 
mixed with black; chin, throat, and fore-neck white ; hinder-cheeks, breast, and 
middle of abdomen ochreous-yellow with dark brown spots on the last; sides of 
body ochreous-brown broadly streaked with white and more narrowly with dark 
brown; thighs dusky ; under tail-coverts white marked with twin black spots ; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts bufEy-white ; under-surface of flight-quills greyish- 
brown with a patch of buffy-white ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown tipped 
with white, or grey. Total length 170 mm. ; culmen 15, wring 91, tail 65, tarsus 22. 
Figured. Collected at Black Spur, Victoria, on the 8th of May, 1901. 
Adult female. (Type.) Top of head, nape, hind-neck, sides of neck, back, scapulars and 
upper wring-coverts dark olive-brown, the feathers of the crown have pale tips ; 
bastard-wring and primary-coverts blackish-brown; outer edge of wring white; 
flight-quills hair-brown crossed by a band of pale buff, tips of secondaries dull grey ; 
rump similar to the back but slightly darker and more or less tinged with grey ; 
upper tail-coverts and tail lead-grey with a broad black subterminal band to the 
lateral feathers which are more or less wriute at the tips ; lores and eye-ring whitish; 
sides of face blackish with whitish shaft-lines to the feathers ; chin, cheeks and 
throat wriiite with a spot of orange-chestnut on the liinder-cheeks; breast and 
abdomen white tinged writh pale yellow ; sides of breast and sides of body drab- 
brown with white centres to the feathers wriiich are margined with black; thighs 
dusky-brown; under tail-coverts w r liitish writh dark twrin spots, or bars to the 
feathers ; axillaries white writh dark tips ; under wing-coverts white writh a patch 
of brown near the margin; under-surface of flight-quills greyish-brown writh a 
patch of buffy-white; lownr aspect of the tail similar to its upper-surface. Eyes 
dark brown, bill blackish, lower base pallid, legs brownish, soles yellowish. Total 
length 160 mm. ; culmen 17, wing 92, tail 62, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected on 
Mt. Lofty, Adelaide, South Australia, on the 17th of May, 1910, and is the type of 
C. I . grisescens . 
Immature female. Top of head ochreous-brown writh pale tips to the feathers ; hind- 
neck, sides of neck, back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts also ockreous-biown 
with white shaft-lines to the feathers ; bastard-wring, outer greater coverts, and 
primary-coverts uniform blackish ; flight-quills hair-brown becoming darker on 
the subterminal portion of the secondaries which are drab-grey at the tips ; a 
bronze-yellow band across the quills chiefly on the inner webs ; rump and upper 
tail-coverts bright rufous-chestnut; tail lead-grey with a wride black subterminal 
band; lores whitish, ear-coverts dusky-brown writh pale shaft-lines ; a patch of 
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