Large Scrubwren

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Acanthizidae

Genus

Sericornis

Subspecies (8)

• Sericornis nouhuysi adelberti

  northeastern New Guinea (Adelbert Mountains)

• Sericornis nouhuysi cantans

  northwestern New Guinea (mountains of Bird's Head Peninsula; populations of Fakfak and Kumawa mountains probably also this subspecies)

• Sericornis nouhuysi jobiensis

  Yapen (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)

• Sericornis nouhuysi monticola

  southeastern New Guinea (high Owen Stanley Mountains)

• Sericornis nouhuysi nouhuysi

  highlands of western New Guinea (Weyland, Nassau, and Oranje mountains)

• Sericornis nouhuysi oorti

  northeastern New Guinea (Herzog Mountains and mountains of Huon Peninsula)

• Sericornis nouhuysi stresemanni

  central highlands of New Guinea; possibly a junior synonym of subspecies pontifex

• Sericornis nouhuysi virgatus

  northern slopes of Sepik-Ramu drainage (northeastern New Guinea), Toricelli Mountains, Victor Emanuel Mountains, Hunstein Range, and Sepik Mountains (north-central New Guinea)