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active liabits renilers tliem conspicuous amongst the small hirds, and their pretty 
purse-like nests are marvels of neatness.] 
No. 60. Climactehis superciliosa, AWth . White-eyebrowed Tree-creeper. 
Climncteris superciliosa, North, Ibis, 1895, p. 341. 
Adult male. General colour above dull earth-brown, changing gradually into 
dark greyish-brown on the crown of the head and blackish-brown on the forehead . 
sides of the neck and upper tail-coverts grey, slightly washed with Imown; 
primaries and secondaries brown with blackish-brown bases, all but the three 
outermost primaries and the three innermost secondaries cro.ssed in the centre with 
a broad l)an(l of rich buff succeeded by another subterminal band of blackish- 
brown ; tail brown, all but the two centre feathers and the outer webs of the 
outermost feather on either side crossed by a subterminal band of blackish-brown, 
increasing in width towards the outermost feather ; lores blackish; feathers below 
the eye and a broad superciliary stripe white; ear-coverts greyish-black streaked 
with white down the centre of each feather; chin white; throat and fore-neck 
light greyish-brown; remainder of the under surface dark gi’eyish-brown, the apical 
half of each feather with a bi’oad longitudinal stripe of white down the centre, 
boi’dered on either side with a narrower line of black ; lower sides of the body and 
centre of the abdomen bufty-brown, and less conspicuously streaked ; under tail- 
coverts buffy-white, with irregular blackish-brown cross-bars; axillaries and 
greater under wing-coverts delicate buff, lesser under coverts dull white, mottled 
with blackish-brown ; bill, legs, and feet, black ; iris, dark bi’own. Total length 
5-7 inches, wing 3'55, tail 2'55, bill from forehead O'O, from gape 0.73, tarsus 0'73. 
Adult pemale. —Like the male in colour, but having the white superciliary 
stripe margined above by a narrower line of rusty-red; the feathers on the centre- 
and lower part of the fore-neck dull white, edged with pale rusty-red; the upper 
tail-coverts and the two centre tail-feathers grey, and the remainder of the tail- 
feathers slightly washed with grey. 
Habitat. —Moolah, interior of New South Wales; Illara Creek and Bagot’s 
Creek, Central Australia ; Queensland. 
Type. —In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
Obs. —This species of Climacteris is allied to C. erytlirops., but differs 
principally in having a smaller bill ; the crown of the head greyish-brown, instead 
