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“ GOLDEN ROBIN,” local American popular name for the " BALTIMORE

ORIOLE” ( Icterus baltimore).


GREY-BREASTED ROBIN, Gould’s name for one of the SHRIKE-ROBINS,

Eopsaltria georgiana.


GROUND-ROBINS, a modern book-name for the ROBIN-CHATS of the

genus Erythvopygia, of Africa. It is also sometimes applied to the

allied Cossypha.


ABYSSINIAN GROUND-ROBIN, Erythvopygia leucoptera.


CAPE GROUND-ROBIN, E. coryphaeus.


RUFOUS-BREASTED GROUND-ROBIN, Cossypha quad-

vivirgata.


SMITH’S GROUND-ROBIN, Erythvopygia poena.


HOODED ROBIN, the Australian Flycatcher, Petroeca bicolor.


“ INDIAN ROBIN,” a popular name for certain Indian CHATS. As a

book-name particularly indicates Thamnobia.


BLACK-BACKED INDIAN ROBIN, T. fulicata.


BROWN-BACKED INDIAN ROBIN, T. cambaiensis.


JAPANESE ROBIN, (i) The JAPANESE REDBREAST, Erithacus

akahige. ( 2 ) A dealer’s variant of “ PEKIN ROBIN.”


LITTLE ROBIN, an Australian name of Poecilodryas nana, a Flycatcher.


LOOCHOO ROBIN, Icoturus komadori.


“ MAGPIE ROBIN,” Indian popular name for the ” DYAL-BIRD,” Cop-

sychus saularis. ( 2 ) As a book-name is applied to birds of the allied

Madagascar genus Gervaisia.


“ MARSH ROBIN,” local North American vernacular name for the TOWHEE

BUNTING, Pipilo erythrophthalmus.


“ NEW ZEALAND ROBINS,” the Flycatchers of the genus Miro. The

NORTH ISLAND ROBIN is M. australis; the SOUTH ISLAND

ROBIN, M. albifrons.


OREGON ROBIN, American author’s alternative name for the VARIED

THRUSH (Hesperocichla naevia).


“ PEKIN ROBIN,” the usual dealer’s and popular name for the Liothrix.


PIED ROBIN. The name applied by Australian and New Zealand writers

to two Flycatchers of their respective countries, Petroeca picata and

toitoi.


PINK-BREASTED ROBIN (Australian authors), P. rhodinogastra.


‘ RED ROBIN,” American popular name for both the " RED ” and " SUM¬

MER TANAGERS.”


RUBY-THROATED ROBINS, the RUBYTHROATS, Calliope.


SHRIKE-ROBINS, the Thickheads of the genus Eopsaltria.


" SWAMP-ROBIN,” local American popular name ( 1 ) for the TOWHEE

BUNTING ; ( 2 ) for the OLIVE-BACKED and HERMIT-THRUSHES


“ Ground Swamp-Robin,” local United States vernacular = the

HERMIT THRUSH.


THRUSH-ROBINS, a modern book-name for the Thrushes of the American

genus Catharus, which are also known as Nightingale Thrushes.


“ WATER-ROBIN,” Anglo-Indian name for the PLUMBEOUS REDSTART

(Rhyacornis fuliginosa).



