Throughout its range, the Southern Emu-wren inhabits marshes, low heathland and dune areas.

Like all emu-wrens, the Mallee Emu-wren is difficult to observe in clumps of spinifex.

The Rufous-crowned Emu-wren is the smallest and most brightly coloured of the three emu wren species.

Birds include the Southern Emu-wren which is endemic to the Fleurieu Peninsula.

Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus), found in coastal southeastern and southwestern Australia.

The Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus) is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.

It was first described in 1899 by Archibald James Campbell, more than a century after its relative the Southern Emu-wren.

Ornithologist Richard Schodde has proposed the Southern Emu-wren is the ancestral form from which the other two species have evolved.

Rufous-crowned Emu-wren (Stipiturus ruficeps) of the arid interior of central-northern Australia.

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The Mallee Emu-wren is one of three species of the genus Stipiturus, commonly known as emu-wrens, found across southern and central Australia.

The adult male Mallee Emu-wren has olive-brown upperparts with dark streaks, and a pale rufous unstreaked crown, and grey-brown wings.

The skin of a male Southern Emu-wren somehow ended up in the collection of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, who believed it to be from Java.

Veillot defined the genus Malurus and placed the Southern Emu-wren within it, giving it the name Malurus palustris.

The Mallee Emu-wren is restricted to open mallee woodland with spinifex understory in northwestern Victoria and southeastern South Australia.

S. Brown, M. Clarke and R. Clarke, Fire is a key element in the landscape-scale habitat requirements and global population status of a threatened bird: The Mallee Emu-wren (Stipiturus mallee), Biological Conservation 142 (2009), pp.

The Rufous-crowned Emu-wren is found across the arid interior of northern central Australia, from the Simpson Desert in the southeast and Barkly Tableland in the northeast, across the centre to the Western Australian coast and the Pilbara in the northwest.

The genus was defined by French naturalist René Lesson in 1831 after his visit to Port Jackson on the 1823-5 voyage of the Coquille, although the Southern Emu-wren had already been encountered and described soon after European settlement at Sydney Cove.

Molecular study indicates it forms a clade with the emu-wrens of the genus Stipiturus.

The Mallee Emu-wren is one of three species of the genus Stipiturus, commonly known as emu-wrens, found across southern and central Australia.