You are here
Species
Sericonis beccarii Salvadori, 1874
Nomenclature
-
Family: AcanthizidaeGenus: Sericornis
Media
SUMMARY
A medium-sized, long-legged scrubwren, most races with distinctive head pattern. Nominate race has dark olive upperparts, browner on crown, wing and tail; forehead and lores black, whitish supraloral spot, small white spot above eye and another below eye; median and greater upperwing-coverts black, tipped white (forming two short broken wingbars); throat whitish, breast and belly washed yellowish, breast indistinctly streaked olive, flanks olive; iris red-brown; bill dark brown or pale flesh-brown, sometimes paler base of lower mandible; legs fleshy brown to pale fleshy pink. Sexes similar. Juvenile undescribed. Races differ mainly in plumage tones and markings, Australian forms with minor sexual dimorphism: randi is similar to nominate, but has greener upperparts, whiter upper throat spotted black, breast and belly yellow, breast streaked with grey, yellowish undertail-coverts; cyclopum resembles previous, but has smaller supraloral and eye spots, ear-covets tinged cinnamon, throat unspotted whitish breast mottled grey; weylandi is similar to previous, but has larger white supraloral and eye spots, more black in lores; wondiwoi Is also similar, but supraloral and eye spots small, lores and cheek cinnamon; idenburgi is darker than last, and wing-coverts have narrow greyish or whitish tips; minimus has breast quite heavily streaked dark (variable, some, perhaps from farther S. have only sparse fine streaks), prominent eye spots (form narrow broken white eyering), sometimes a narrow whitish supercilium, also chin and throat may have fine dusky flecking, sexually dimorphic, male with contrasting black lores, female duller with more poorly marked face pattern; dubius differs from last in having pale facial marking much less distinct ( dull creamy broken eyering and supraloral spot, hint of pale supercilium), lores and ear-coverts rusty brown, wing markings much less distinct (although still obvious), warmer rusty-buff below, merging into pale buffy white on chin and throat, creamy buff on belly, female duller facial markings and deeper tawny-buff underbody (fading to paler on belly), juvenile may be similar to adult perhaps with duller grey to pale brown iris.