RED-BROWED TREECREEPER. 
this species is the circumstance of the female alone being adorned with the 
beautiful radiated rufous markings on the throat, the male having this part 
quite plain ; a fact which I ascertained beyond a doubt by the dissection of 
numerous specimens of both sexes ; it is true that a faint trace of this character 
is observable both in Climacteris scandens and C. rufa, but the present is the 
only species of the genus in which this reversion of a general law of nature is 
so strikingly apparent.” 
Very little is known about this species, as North found after he had 
described his C. superciliosa that all the interior records of C. erythrops referred 
to the white-browed form. 
However, Mr. L. G. Chandler met with this species at Olinda, Victoria, 
and wrote me: “ Like C. leucophcea it commences at the foot of a tree and 
works spirally upwards when in search of insects. This is probably the furthest 
south that it has been secured.” The same year Chandler wrote: “ Since 
the above it has been found by other workers, Messrs. T. H. Tregellas and 
F. E. Wilson, and from June 5th to 7th several birds were noticed by me in the 
same locality. Finding the birds still in the locality as late as June, I should 
think it will prove them residents and not casuals as I at first surmised. The 
country they were found in is a stretch of white gum, peppermint and stringy- 
bark timber, bordering a creek, and forms a valley or flat between two hills. 
The birds appeared to search the upper branches in order as they came to 
them and gave no preference to any one species of tree. The first specimen 
I secured resembled the White-throated Creeper in the habit of commencing 
at the foot of the tree and -working spirally upwards, but the birds observed 
this trip were not noticed to leave the upper trunks and branches. One call 
resembles slightly a call of the White-throated Creeper, and is a silveiy bell¬ 
like trill and exceedingly sweet. How r ever, it can be distinguished from the 
note of that bird.” 
F. E. Howe in his recent “Review” has recorded: “I also met tins agile 
and beautiful form in the Dandenongs, from Ferntree Gully towards Gembrook, 
and have little doubt that it extends through the eastern and north-eastern 
portion of Victoria. It is far from rare, and half a dozen birds may be seen 
together, generally in the non-breeding months. In Victoria, the habitat 
is the hilly country where messmate, blackwood, mountain ash and white 
gums abound. When half creeping and fluttering up the long hanging strips 
of bark of the two latter trees the bird is seen to advantage, while it examines 
a tree very thoroughly, often working each limb to the extremity. It rests 
in an upright position on the side of a tree, and I believe these Tieecieepeis 
roost in a like position in the burnt out hollows at the base of large trees. 
The call-notes are a harsh, high pitched medley, not unlike those of the Striated 
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