PASSERIFORMES: Neosittidae
Daphoenositta chrysoptera
Australia has one of the world's three species of Sittella. The other two occur in New Guinea*.
(*Bird Australia published by Dorling Kindersley, 2009).
There are at least five recognised races of Varied Sittella in Australia.
This is striata, Striated Sittella, found in northern Queensland.