Poecilodryas

Poecilodryas is a genus of passerine birds in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae.

Poecilodryas
White-browed robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Petroicidae
Genus:	Poecilodryas Gould, 1865
Species
see text

The genus was erected by the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould in 1865.[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the buff-sided robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris).[2][3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek poikilos "variegated" with dryad "tree-nymph".[4]

The genus contains four species:[5]

• Black-chinned robin (Poecilodryas brachyura)
• Black-sided robin (Poecilodryas hypoleuca)
• White-browed robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa)
• Buff-sided robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris)

Formerly, some authorities also placed the following species (or subspecies) in the genus Poecilodryas:

• Brown-backed whistler (now Pachycephala modesta in the family Pachycephalidae)[6]
• Golden monarch (nitidus) (now Carterornis nitida in the family Monarchidae)[7]
• Black-throated robin (now Plesiodryas albonotata)[5][8]
• Banded yellow robin (now Gennaeodryas placens)[5][8]

References

1. Gould, John (1865). Handbook to the Birds of Australia. Volume 1. London: Self-published. p. 287.
2. Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1879). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae Part 1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Volume 4. London: Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 240, 242.
3. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 575.
4. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Poecilodryas". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
6. "Pachycephala modesta - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
7. "Carterornis chrysomela nitidus - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
8. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 576–577.