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Order PASSERIFORMES . Fa/m7y CLIMACTERIDJE. 
No. 620. 
CORMOBATES ERYTHROPS. 
RED-BROWED TREECREEPER. 
(Plate 502.) 
Climacteris erythrops Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 148, July 1841: New 
South Wales (Liverpool Range). 
Climacteris erythrops Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 148, 1841 ; id.. Birds Austr., 
pt. iv. (Vol. IV., pi. 95), Sept. 1st, 1841; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 602, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 191, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mub., Vol. VIII., p. 338, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 35, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 335, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 49, 1906; 
A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 181, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 89, 1908 ; Chandler, Emu, Vol. IN., pp. 28-94, 1909 (Vic.); Howe, lb., Vol. XXI., 
p. 34, 1921 (Review). 
Climacteris erythrops erythrops Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 383, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 250, 1913. 
Climacteris erythrops olinda Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXXVT., p. 91, July 
7th, 1916 : Olinda, Victoria. 
Distribution. New South Wales, Victoria. 
Adult male. Crown of head blackish with grej r fringes to the feathers on the fore-head 
and sides of the crown ; lores, fore part of cheeks, and eye-ring, a dark spot in front 
of the eye, which have hair-like tips to the feathers ; hinder face drab-grey ; mantle, 
back, and scapulars sepia-brown ; upper wing-coverts blackish fringed with dark 
olive ; bastard-wing and outermost primary dark brown edged with white ; outer 
greater coverts, primary-coverts, and outer webs of primary-quills at the base black; 
flight-quills hair-brown becoming darker and inclining to black on the secondaries 
which have drab-grey tips, a broad band of buff, or buffy-wliite across the inner-webs 
of the quills; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail slate-grey with a wide band of blackisli- 
brown on the last ; chin, throat, and lower cheeks wliiteish ; a band of drab-grey 
across the fore-neck; breast, abdomen, and sides of body drab-grey streaked with 
black and white, becoming oclireous on the lower abdomen which is spotted with 
dark brown ; t hi ghs lead-grey ; under tail-coverts buffy-white marked with black , 
axillaries cream-white marked with pale brown or grey ; under wing-coveits white , 
under-surface of flight-quills hair-browm with a patch of bufly-white towaids the 
base ; lower aspect of tail blackish tipped w T ith grey. Eyes hazel, feet dull black, 
bill black. Total length 145 mm. ; culrnen 15, wing 87, tail 67, tarsus 22. Figured. 
Collected at Olinda, Victoria, on the 6th of June, 1909. 
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