Buff-faced scrubwren

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Buff-faced scrubwren

| image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.135700 1 - Sericornis perspicillatus Salvadori, 1896 - Acanthizidae - bird skin specimen.jpeg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year= 2017 |title= Sericornis perspicillatus |amends= 2016 |page= e.T22704573A118668747 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22704573A118668747.en |access-date=21 December 2023}}

| genus = Aethomyias

| species = perspicillatus

| authority = (Salvadori, 1896)

| synonyms = Sericornis perspicillatus

}}

The buff-faced scrubwren (Aethomyias perspicillatus) is a bird species in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in the highlands of New Guinea; Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Sericornis but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Aethomyias.{{ cite journal | last1=Norman | first1=J.A. | last2=Christidis | first2=L. | last3=Schodde | first3=R. | year=2018 | title=Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae) | journal=Organisms Diversity & Evolution | volume=18 | issue=2 | pages=241–259 | doi=10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8 | s2cid=46967802 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bristlebirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=21 January 2019 }}