Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 435. 
Family MUSCICAPIDM. 
PETROICA MULTICOLOR. 
SCARLET-BREASTED ROBIN. 
(Plate 377.)* 
[Muscicapa multicolor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., pt. n., p. 944, April 20th, 1789 : Norfolk 
Island. Extra-limital.] 
Muscicapa boodang Lesson, Journ. aut. globe, “ Thetis,” Vol. II., p. 322, 1837 : Sydney, 
New South Wales. 
Sylvia erythrogastra Lewin, Birds New Holland, pi. 17, 1808 (not of Latham, 1801, which 
is a synonym of M. multicolor Gmelin.) 
Muscicapa multicolor Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 243, 
1827. 
Petroica multicolor Swainson, Zool. Illus., 2nd Ser., Vol. I., pi. 36, 1829; Gould, Synops. 
Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (7), Jan. 1837 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. vin. (Vol. III., pi. 3), 
Sept. 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 279, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878. 
Muscicapa boodang Lesson, Journ. aut. glob. “Thetis,” Vol. II., p. 322, 1837. 
Petroica coccinea Peale, United States Expl. Exped., Vol. VIII., p. 92, 1848 : Sydney, 
New South Wales. 
Petroica leggii Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 165 (pref. March), 1879 : 
Tasmania ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 239, 1887 (Tas.) ; id., 
ib., 1887, p. 87, 1888 (Tas.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 134, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 163, 1903 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. V., p. 141, 1906 
(Kangaroo Island) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 13, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 61, 1908; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 22, 1910; Mellor and White, 
Emu, Vol. XII., p. 162, 1913 (Flinders Island) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 37, 
1913 (Vic.). 
Petroica campbelli Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII., p. xxii., Dec. 31st, 1898 : 
(near Albany) West Australia ; id., Ibis, 1899, p. 303 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 136, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 13, 1906 ; Mathews, 
Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 62, 1908. 
* The Plate is lettered Petroica coccinea. 
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