White-browed Scrub Robin

The White-browed Scrub Robin has a brown back tinged with rust, a characteristic frequent amongst the birds of the genus. The adult of the type leucophrys subspecies has a beige-brown crown and nape, a warm brown mantle and back, a rufous rump and uppertail-coverts. The tail is blackish, edged and ended in white. The wings are also blackish brown, with two very visible white bars at the tips of the greater and medium coverts. The remiges are fringed with pale fawn, largely on the tertiaries.
The face is typical for a scrub robin, with a blackish line on each side top to bottom bordering the brown crown, a clean white eyebrow, a blackish loral line passing by the dark eye and continuing back, a chevron fawn underlined in brown, a wide white moustache separated from the white throat by a distinct malar line brown. A half-moon white serves as framing for the eye. The beak is dark grey, with the base of the lower mandible yellow.
The underparts are whitish with more or less pronounced brown streaks starting from the malar lines and extending to the chest and flanks, they are washed in rufous. The legs are pinkish grey. Both sexes are similar. The juvenile differs from the adult by a scaly-looking plumage.
The other subspecies (9) are overall rufous above and below, with the tail itself rufous and black and white-ended, the head more grey and contrasting, with more white on the wings. This last criterion is particularly noticable on the leucoptera subspecies. Munda has an intermediate tail. Ecological-ethological differences are also observable, such as distinct songs.