Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The emu-wrens (Stipiturus) are a genus of bird in the fairy-wren family Maluridae. They are found only in Australia where they inhabit scrub, heathland and grassland. They are small birds, 12-19 cm long with the tail accounting for over half of their length. The tail has only six feathers which are loose and coarse in structure, rather like the feathers of the Emu. Three species are recognised, one of which is endangered. The common name of the genus is derived from the resemblance of their tails to the feathers of an Emu. The genus was defined by French naturalist Rene 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. The three species have been variously considered as one, two or even four species (the Western Australian subspecies westernensis of the Southern considered a species at one point.

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