Papuan Scrub-Robin

SCI Name:  Drymodes beccarii
Protonym:  Drymoedus beccarii Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 13 p. 965
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Drymodes
Taxonomy Code:  papscr2
Type Locality:  Arf ak Mountains.
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1876
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DRYMODES
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Southern Scrub-robin D. brunneopygia) Gr. δρυμωδης drumōdēs  woody  < δρυμος drumos  copse, wood; ειδος eidos  nature, state  < ειδω eidō  to perceive (cf. δρυμονιος drumonios  haunting the woods); "An entirely new form, belonging to the family Saxicolinæ, and nearly allied to Petroïca, I propose to make the type of a new genus Drymodes, signifying a lover of woodland places:—   Genus DRYMODES.  Characteres generici.—Rostrum rectum, ad latera apicem versus paulo compressum, fere longitudine capitis, apice leviter denticulato, basi vibrissis parce instructa.  Alæ mediocres, rotundatæ, remigum primo brevissimo, quinto longissimo.  Cauda mediocriter elongata, paulo rotundata.  Tarsi longi, graciles, antice superficie integra.  Digiti mediocres, externus horum quam internus paulo longior, posticus cum ungue quam digitus intermedius cum ungue brevior.   DRYMODES BRUNNEOPYGIA.   ...   Hab. Belts of the Murray in South Australia.   This bird, although of a large size and so sombre in colouring, is nearly allied to Petroïca.” (Gould 1841); "Drymodes Gould, 1840, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 170. Type, by monotypy, Drymodes brunneopygia Gould." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 28).
Var. Drymaoedus, Drymos. 
Synon. Drymodina, Drymoedus, Hylodes.

beccariana / beccarianus / beccarii
Dr Odoardo Beccari (1843-1920) Italian botanist, explorer, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea (subsp. Aethopyga siparaja, Alopecoenas, syn. Casuarius casuarius, Cochoa, syn. Cyornis rufigastra, syn. Cyornis superbus, Dicaeum, Drymodes, subsp. Goura victoria, subsp. Micropsitta pusio, Otus, Sericornis, subsp. Turnix maculosus).

SUBSPECIES

Papuan Scrub-Robin (beccarii)
SCI Name: Drymodes beccarii beccarii
beccariana / beccarianus / beccarii
Dr Odoardo Beccari (1843-1920) Italian botanist, explorer, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea (subsp. Aethopyga siparaja, Alopecoenas, syn. Casuarius casuarius, Cochoa, syn. Cyornis rufigastra, syn. Cyornis superbus, Dicaeum, Drymodes, subsp. Goura victoria, subsp. Micropsitta pusio, Otus, Sericornis, subsp. Turnix maculosus).

Papuan Scrub-Robin (nigriceps)
SCI Name: Drymodes beccarii nigriceps
nigriceps
L. niger  black; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

Papuan Scrub-Robin (brevirostris)
SCI Name: Drymodes beccarii brevirostris
brevirostre / brevirostris
Mod. L. brevirostris  having a short beak  < L. brevis  short; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.