Large scrubwren

The large scrubwren was formally described in 1909 by the Dutch ornithologist Eduard Daniël van Oort based on a specimen collected in the Jayawijaya Mountains of western New Guinea by the Dutch explorer Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz. Van Oort considered the specimen to be a subspecies on the grey-green scrubwren (Aethomyias arfakianus) and coined the trinomial name Sericornis arfakiana nouhuysi. He chose the epithet nouhuysi to honour Jan Willem van Nouhuys, Lorentz's travelling companion.{{ cite book | last=van Oort | first=Eduard Daniël | author-link=Eduard Daniël van Oort | date=1909 | title=Nova Guinea : résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1907 et 1909 | volume=9 | location=Leiden | publisher=E.J. Brill | page=90 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40377672 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=421 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50594 }}{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=nouhuysi | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=nouhuysi | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=22 February 2025 }}

Ten subspecies are recognised:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date= July 2023 | title=Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers | work=World Bird List Version 13.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bristlebirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=14 December 2023 }}

• S. n. cantans Mayr, 1930 – montane Bird south Head and Arfak Mts. (northwest New Guinea)
• S. n. nouhuysi van Oort, 1909 – montane central west New Guinea
• S. n. idenburgi Rand, 1941 – Gauttier Mountains and slopes above Idenburg River (northwest New Guinea)
• S. n. stresemanni Mayr, 1930 – montane central, central east New Guinea
• S. n. adelberti Pratt, 1982 – Adelbert Range (northeast New Guinea)
• S. n. oorti Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1913 – Huon Peninsula and Herzog Mountains (northeast New Guinea)
• S. n. monticola Mayr & Rand, 1936 – montane southeast New Guinea
• S. n. jobiensis Stresemann & Paludan, 1932 – Yapen (Geelvink Bay Islands, northwest New Guinea)
• S. n. pontifex Stresemann, 1921 – Victor Emanuel Mountains, Hunstein Range and Sepik Mountains (central north New Guinea)
• S. n. virgatus (Reichenow, 1915) – central north, northeast New Guinea (Bewani Mountains, Torricelli Mountains, Prince Alexander Mountains, and north slopes of Sepik-Ramu drainage. (includes boreonesioticus)

Subspecies S. n. virgatus, S. n. jobiensis and S. n. pontifex have sometimes been considered as a separate species, the perplexing scrubwren.

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