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WESTERN ROBIN (American authors) = Turdus propinquus.


“ WHITE-BELLIED ROBIN,” Australian vernacular, teste Gould, for the

WHITE-BREASTED SHRIKE-ROBIN, Eopsaltria gularis.


“ WOOD-ROBIN ” (i) Local U.S.A. vernacular = the WOOD THRUSH.

(2) In New Zealand, the popular name of the NORTH and SOUTH

ISLAND ROBINS, Miro.


PINK-BREASTED WOOD-ROBIN (Gould and later writers),

Petroeca rhodinogastra.


RED-FLANKED WOOD-ROBIN, Ianthia rufilata.


ROSE-BREASTED WOOD-ROBIN (Gould), Petroeca rosea.


“ YELLOW ROBIN,” an Australian popular name (teste Gould), for the

YELLOW-BREASTED SHRIKE-ROBIN, Eopsaltria Australis.

YELLOW-BREASTED ROBIN (1) the above. (2) Petroeca macrocephala,

a Flycatcher.


Another combination of names in which the word ROBIN appears as

the prefix, gives us a further list of species and larger groups of birds.


“ ROBIN-BREAST ” is a common local name, both in Great Britain and

America for the KNOT.


ROBIN-CHATS is a book-name for the Chats of the genus Cossypha and its

allies, of which C. caffra, the CAPE ROBIN-CHAT, known in South

Africa as the “ CAPE ROBIN,” and (from its note), the ” JAN

FREDRIC,” is the typical example.


‘‘ROBIN DIPPER,” local American popular name for the BUFFLE

HEADED DUCK.


“ COCK ROBIN DUCK,” a local name in New Jersey for the HOODED

MERGANSER.


“ ROBIN HAWK,” local British name for the “ CROSSBILL.”


‘‘ ROBIN SANDPIPER,” occasional gunner’s name for the KNOT.


“ ROBIN SNIPE,” local American popular name (1) for the KNOT, and

(2) for the RED-BREASTED SNIPE-TATLER ( Macrorhamphus

griseus ).


‘‘WHITE ROBIN-SNIPE ” = No. 1 above.


ROBIN THRUSH, a book-name which is applied to various THRUSHES,

as the SPOTTED ROBIN-THRUSH, Cichladusa guttata, of South

Africa ; and (2) by American authors to some of the true Thrushes,

as Turdus confinis, the CAPE ST. LUCAS ROBIN-THRUSH.


Both these lists could no doubt be swelled, but enough is as good as a

feast, and probably many who may have got as far as this will be thinking,

that there has been a good deal more than enough on this purely nominal

subject.


E. Hopkinson.


To the Editor, The Avicultural Magazine.


Sir, —Can any reader give the name of a poem and its author, which

I remember to have read, in which quite a number of African birds are men¬

tioned ? I have only a very hazy recollection of what it was about, but believe

Egypt, and think it must have been a prize poem, as the only two lines which

have stuck in my memory, are



