Black-chinned Robin

SCI Name:  Poecilodryas brachyura
Protonym:  Leucophantes brachyurus Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1873) (1873), Pt3 p.691 pl.53
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Poecilodryas
Taxonomy Code:  blcrob1
Type Locality:  Hatam, Arfak Mountains; error: Andai, northwestern New Guinea, fide Mayr, 1941, List New Guinea Birds, p. 142.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

POECILODRYAS
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Buff-sided Robin P. cerviniventris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  variegated; δρυας druas, δρυαδος druados  dryad, tree-nymph  < δρυς drus, δρυος druos  tree; "Genus PŒCILODRYAS, Gould.   On reference to the figures of the birds I have called Petroica? cerviniventris and P. superciliosa in the third volume of the folio edition and in the Supplement, it will at once be seen that these two species cannot be associated with either of the preceding genera [Amaurodryas, Melanodryas], and must be separated into a new one; this division I have accordingly made, and assigned to it the above appellation.    Sp. 171. PŒCILODRYAS CERVINIVENTRIS, Gould.  ...  P. superciliosa; to this species the one here described is very nearly allied—so nearly, in fact, that, although I have treated them as distinct, a suspicion has arisen in my mind that they may be the sexes of one and the same species; they both differ in form from the typical or true Petroicæ, and are doubtless representatives of each other in the respective countries they inhabit, the P. superciliosa dwelling on the eastern parts of the continent, and the P. cerviniventris in the western." (Gould 1865); "Poecilodryas Gould, 1865, Handb. Birds Australia, 1, p. 287. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1879, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 4, pp. 240, 242), Petroica? cerviniventris Gould." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 575).
Var. Paecilodryos.
Synon. Leucophantes.

brachyura / brachyuros / brachyurum
Gr. βραχυς brakhus  short; -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.
● ex “Olivert” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 125 (Camaroptera).
● ex “Petit Gobe-mouche tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 831, fig. 2, and de Buffon 1770-1783 (Myrmotherula).
● ex “Pica indica vulgaris” of Ray 1713, “Pica bengalensis” of Albin 1731-1738, “Pica cauda brevi. Short-tail’d Pye” of Edwards 1751, and “Turdus viridis moluccensis” of Brisson 1760 (Pitta).

SUBSPECIES

Black-chinned Robin (brachyura)
SCI Name: Poecilodryas brachyura brachyura
brachyura / brachyuros / brachyurum
Gr. βραχυς brakhus  short; -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.
● ex “Olivert” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 125 (Camaroptera).
● ex “Petit Gobe-mouche tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 831, fig. 2, and de Buffon 1770-1783 (Myrmotherula).
● ex “Pica indica vulgaris” of Ray 1713, “Pica bengalensis” of Albin 1731-1738, “Pica cauda brevi. Short-tail’d Pye” of Edwards 1751, and “Turdus viridis moluccensis” of Brisson 1760 (Pitta).

Black-chinned Robin (albotaeniata)
SCI Name: Poecilodryas brachyura albotaeniata
albotaeniata / albotaeniatus
L. albus white; taenia ribbon, head-band < Gr. ταινια tainia head-band.

Black-chinned Robin (dumasi)
SCI Name: Poecilodryas brachyura dumasi
dumasi
Johannes Maximiliaan Dumas (1856-1931) Dutch planter in Borneo, explorer, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea (Geokichla, subsp. Phyllergates cucullatus, subsp. Poecilodryas brachyura).