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coverts, and chest border are streaked with black. The tail is double the body length, and is composed of six filamentous feathers, the central two of which are longer than the lateral ones. The underparts are buff. The bill, feet and eyes are brown. The female resembles the male but lacks much of the blue plumage and redder crown. Its throat is a yellow buff, and it has some blue-tinged streaked ear coverts. Its bill is pale brown.
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The rufous-crowned emu-wren is the smallest and most brightly coloured of the three emu-wren species. The adult male has reddish upperparts with faint streaks, with a prominently rufous crown and grey-brown wings. It has a bright sky blue throat, upper chest, lores and ear coverts. The lores and ear
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may have redder plumage, and females more blue on the face and lores. It has been considered a subspecies of both the southern and mallee emu-wrens in the past. The common name of the genus is derived from the resemblance of their tails to the feathers of an
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The rufous-crowned emu-wren is one of three species of the genus
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1062:IUCN Red List least concern species
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320:. It lives in spinifex shrubland.
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288:Distribution and habitat
248:Archibald James Campbell
236:Taxonomy and systematics
35:Rufous-crowned emu-wren
1077:Birds described in 1899
695:Rufous-crowned emu-wren
599:Blue-breasted fairywren
589:Purple-backed fairywren
448:Oxford University Press
208:rufous-crowned emu-wren
18:Rufous-crowned Emu-wren
777:Thick-billed grasswren
757:Short-tailed grasswren
752:Carpentarian grasswren
634:White-winged fairywren
552:Broad-billed fairywren
399:. Rigby. p. 188.
395:Wade P., ed. (1977).
296:in the southeast and
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604:Red-winged fairywren
594:Variegated fairywren
557:Campbell's fairywren
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873:Stipiturus_ruficeps
860:Stipiturus_ruficeps
846:Stipiturus ruficeps
816:Stipiturus ruficeps
787:Kalkadoon grasswren
532:Wallace's fairywren
506:Subfamily Malurinae
341:Stipiturus ruficeps
213:Stipiturus ruficeps
190:Stipiturus ruficeps
51:Conservation status
762:Striated grasswren
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308:bounded by
279:Description
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675:Stipiturus
646:Clytomyias
446:. Oxford:
436:cited text
324:References
306:Queensland
262:"red" and
243:Stipiturus
159:Stipiturus
727:Amytornis
524:Sipodotus
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166:Species:
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881:Avibase
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302:Pilbara
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264:caput
260:rufus
256:Latin
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