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ROBIN as a book name indicates one of the Bush-Chats, Thamnolaea

nigra.


INDIAN BLACK ROBIN, a name used by Jerdon for one of

“ INDIAN ROBINS ” (Thamnobia fulicata).


WHITE-WINGED BLACK ROBIN, also Jerdon’s, was his

name for the PIED STONECHAT, Pratincola caprata.


“ BLUE ROBIN,” American popular and English dealer’s name for the

BLUEBIRD, Sialia.


BLUE-HEADED ROBIN, one of the Asiatic Robins, Adelura caeruleo-

cephala.


BLUE-THROATED ROBIN, the BLUETHROAT, Cyanecula suecica.


“ BOB ROBIN,” an occasional local variant of " ROBIN.”


BUFF-SIDED ROBIN, a book name, originally given by Gould, of the

Australian Flycatcher, Poecilodryas cerviniventris.


BUSH-ROBINS, a book name which is applied to several of the true Robins

and their allies, as the


BLACK BUSH-ROBIN, Cercotrichas podobe, of Africa.


RED-FLANKED BUSH-ROBIN, Ianthia rnflata.


RUFOUS-BELLIED BUSH-ROBIN, I. hypererythra.


WHITE-BROWED BUSH-ROBIN, I. indica, all three Asiatic

species.


and also to a few Flycatchers, for example, the


GOLDEN BUSH-ROBIN is Tarsiger chrysaeus, of the Himalayas.


SILENT BUSH-ROBIN is the name used in Stark and Sclater’s

Birds of South Africa for Bradyornis silens.


WHITE-STARRED BUSH-ROBIN, the same author’s name

for another African species, Pogonocichla stellata.


" CANADA ROBIN ” is a local American* vernacular of the “ CEDAR-

BIRD ” (Ampelis cedrorum).


“ CAPE ROBIN ” (South African vernac.), the CAPE ROBIN-CHAT

(Cossypha caffra).


CHAT-ROBINS, a modern book-name for Chats of the genus Cercomela

and its allies.


ANT-EATING CHAT-ROBIN, Myrmecocichla formicivora.


BLACK-THROATED CHAT-ROBIN, M. bifasciata.


BLANFORD’S CHAT-ROBIN, Cercomela fuscicaudata.


INDIAN CHAT-ROBIN, C. fusca.


SICKLE-WINGED CHAT-ROBINS, the South African Chats

of the genus Poliocichla, specifically P. sinuata.


TEMMINCIv’S CHAT-ROBIN, Cercomela melanura.


CHATHAM ISLAND ROBIN, Miro traversi.


COREAN ROBIN, the name incorrectly used by Seebohm for the LOOCHOO

ROBIN.


DUSKY ROBIN (Gould), Petroeca vitlata.


FLAME-BREASTED ROBIN, also a name of Gould’s, P. phoenicea.


FLY-ROBIN, a name applied by Australian writers to the Flycatchers of

the genus Heteromyias.


ASHY-FRONTED FLY-ROBIN, H. cinereifrons.



