WHITE-BROWED BABBLER

Photographed near Tailem Bend, South Australia March 2015

528          WHITE-BROWED BABBLER                Pomatostomus superciliosus

Australia            (369)

Also known as Happy Family, Stickbirds, Cackler, Twelve Apostles, and Jumper. 18-22 cm. Found in drier scrubby woodlands, mulga, other acacia, mallee, cypress pine; timber, scrub along watercourses,  saltbush. Range mainland Australia, mostly west of Divide and north of Divide in Vic., not in driest part of s. NT and n. SA.

SOUTHERN SCRUB-ROBIN

Photographed at Billiatt Conservation Park, South Australia March 2015

527         SOUTHERN SCRUB-ROBIN           Dryomodes brunneopygia

Australia           (368)

Found in mallee, broom brush, other dry scrubs, lignam on playpens, heaths, coastal tea-tree thickets. 20-23 cm. range mallee of c/sw. NSW, n and e to c. Condobolin; nw Vic. e to c. Wedderburn, s to Little Desert NP; se SA and Murray mallee, n to s. FlindersRas NP, w to Eyre Pen-Kangaroo Is. In WA w from Madura, nw to Shark Bay, inland to c. Norseman-Southern Cross-Perenjori; absent from forested sw.