By combining photometry from the 2MASS Point Source Catalog and the USNO-B1.0 Catalog with optical and infrared spectroscopy , I have performed a search for young brown dwarfs in an area of 225 deg ^ { 2 } encompassing all of the Taurus star-forming region ( \tau \sim 1 Myr ) .
From this work , I have discovered 22 new members of Taurus , five of which were independently found by Guieu and coworkers .
Sixteen of these new members have spectral types later than M6 and thus are likely to be brown dwarfs according to the theoretical evolutionary models of Chabrier and Baraffe .
After adding these new members to the previously known members of Taurus , I have compared the spatial distributions of stars and brown dwarfs across the entire region .
I find no statistically significant difference between these two distributions .
Taurus does not contain the large , extended population of brown dwarfs that has been predicted by some embryo ejection models for the formation of brown dwarfs .
However , these results are consistent with other ejection models , as well as models in which stars and brown dwarfs share a common formation mechanism .