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Order PASSERIFORMES. Family CLIMACTERIDJE. 
No. 621. 
CORMOBATES AFFINIS. 
WHITE-BROWED TREECREEPER. 
(Plate 502.) 
Climacteris affinis Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Vol. XXXII., p. 453,1863, 1864 : 
ex Melbourne=Broken Hill, New South Wales. 
Climacteris affinis Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Vol. XXXII., p. 453, 1864. 
Climacteris superciliosa North, Ibis, 1895, p. 341, July 1st: Illara Creek, Central Australia ; 
id., Report Horn Sc. Exp., part n., Zool., p. 96, pi. 7, 1896 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 35, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 336, 1901 ; Milligan, 
Emu, Vol.TV., p. 6, 1904 (W.A.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. H., p. 51, 
1906 : A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 181, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. S9, 1908 ; Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 665 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 134, 1909 (Vic.); 
Whitlock, ib., Vol. IX., p. 208, 1910 (W.A.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. X., pp. 90-2-5, 
1910 (N.S.W.); Hill, ib., Vol. XII., p. 241, 1913 (Central Australia) ; Campbell, 
and Kershaw, ib., p. 276 ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 31, 1913 (S.A.); Ashby, 
ib., Vol. XVII., p. 219, 1918 (S.A.) ; Howe, ib., Vol. XXI., p. 36, 1921 ; Whitlock, 
ib., p. 182, 1922 ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XXII., p. 257, 1923. 
Climacteris erythrops superciliosa Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 383, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 251, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 190, 1915. 
Climacteris erythrops neositta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 383, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Calliou, West Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 250, 1913. 
Climacteris erythrops parson-si Mellor, South Austr. Omitli., Vol. IV., pt. I., p. 5, Jan. 1st, 
1919: Pungonda, Mallee, South Australia. 
Distribution. Central Australia, limits of range unknown, as far south in east as 
Pungonda, Northern New South Wales (interior) and Mid-west Australia. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface rust-brown, including the hind-neck, sides 
of neck, back, rump, scapulars and upper wing-coverts; bastard-wing and nist 
primary dark brown edged with white on the outer web ; primary-coverts blackish- 
brown ; flight-quills blackish, somewhat paler towards the tips of the primaries 
and drab-grey at the tips of the secondaries, with a band of buff, which commences 
on the third or fourth primary ; upper tail-coverts and tail drab-grey with a wide 
black subterminal band on the lateral feathers, which is only slightly indicated 
on the middle ones ; top of head greyish-brown ; lores and superciliary streak 
whitish; feathers in front of the eye black and bristly in texture; ear-coverts 
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