Editing Scrubbird (section)

==Description==
Birds of both species are about the same size as a [[common starling]] (roughly 20&nbsp;cm long) and cryptically coloured in drab browns and blacks. They occupy dense undergrowth&mdash;the [[rufous scrubbird]] in [[temperate rain forest]]s near the [[Queensland]]-[[New South Wales]] border, the [[noisy scrubbird]] in heaths and scrubby gullies in coastal [[Western Australia]]&mdash;and are adept at scuttling mouse-like under cover to avoid notice.<ref name=EoB>{{cite book |editor=Forshaw, Joseph|author= Smith. G.T.|year=1991|title=Encyclopaedia of Animals: Birds|publisher= Merehurst Press|location=London|pages= 170|isbn= 1-85391-186-0}}</ref> They run fast, but their flight is feeble.

The males' calls, however, are powerful:<ref name=EoB/> ringing and metallic, with a ventriloquial quality, so loud as to be heard from a long distance in heavy scrub and almost painful at close range. Females build a domed nest close to the ground and take sole responsibility for raising the young.