Subalpine Robin

SCI Name:  Petroica bivittata
Protonym:  Petroeca bivittata Ibis p.376
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Petroica
Taxonomy Code:  alprob1
Type Locality:  Mt. Scratchley; altitude 12,200 feet.
Author:  De Vis
Publish Year:  1897
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PETROICA
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Norfolk Island Robin P. multicolor) Gr. πετρα petra  rock, crag; οικος oikos  dwelling  < οικεω oikeō  to inhabit; "PETROICA multicolor.  Scarlet-breasted Robin.   Family Sylviadæ.   GENERIC CHARACTER.   Bill slender, the sides compressed, the tip gradually bent, and beset with bristles at the base.  Wings long; the first quill spurious; the second intermediate in length between the sixth and seventh.  Tarsi elevated, the inner toe manifestly shorter than the external toe.  Tail broad, even.   ...  Lewin, who wrote upon the spot, observes that although in some respects solitary, it frequents the abodes of man in winter, like the Robin; which it further resembles in its note.  ...   Mr. Caley mentions that he saw "this bird in November" (our European summer), "when far distant in the mountains, in the roughest part of the country I had then or since visited." Linn. Tr. 15. p. 245.  Mr. Caley, moreover, as if perfectly aware of its natural affinities, names it the Australian Redstart." (Swainson 1830); "Petroica Swainson, 1830, Zool. Illustr., ser. 2, pt. 8, pl. 36 and text. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa multicolor Gmelin." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 562).   
Var. Petroeca.   
Synon. Belchera, Erythrodryas, Littlera, Miro, Myiomoira, Myioscopus, Nesomiro, Whiteornis.

bivittata / bivittatus
Mod. L. bivittatus  two-banded, two-striped  < L. bi-  double  < bis  twice; vittatus  banded  < vitta  ribbon.
● ex “Figuier à tête noire de Cayenne” (= ♂) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 704, fig. 1, and “Sylvia caerulea var. β” of Latham 1790 (syn. Polioptila plumbea).

SUBSPECIES

Subalpine Robin (caudata)
SCI Name: Petroica bivittata caudata
caudata / caudatus
L. caudatus  tailed, having a (long/short) tail  < cauda  tail.
● ex “Parus caudatus” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Long-tail’d Titmouse” of Ray 1713, and “Parus vertice albo, cauda corpore longiore” of Linnaeus 1746 (Aegithalos).
● ex “Merle vert à longue queue de Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Lamprotornis).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à longue queue de Madagascar” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 248, fig. 1 (syn. Terpsiphone mutata).
● ex “Courly à col blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 976, and “Grand Courlis de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Theristicus).

Subalpine Robin (bivittata)
SCI Name: Petroica bivittata bivittata
bivittata / bivittatus
Mod. L. bivittatus  two-banded, two-striped  < L. bi-  double  < bis  twice; vittatus  banded  < vitta  ribbon.
● ex “Figuier à tête noire de Cayenne” (= ♂) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 704, fig. 1, and “Sylvia caerulea var. β” of Latham 1790 (syn. Polioptila plumbea).