Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 438. 
Family MUSCIGAPIDJE. 
ERYTHRODRYAS RODINOGASTER. 
PINK-BREASTED ROBIN. 
(Plate 378.)* 
Saxicola rodinogaster Drapiez, Ann. Gen. des Sci. Phys. Bruxelles, Yol. II., p. 341, 
1819 : Maria Island, Tasmania. 
Saxicola rodinogaster Drapiez, Ann. Gen. des Sci. Phys. Bruxelles, Vol. II., p. 341, 1819. 
Muscicapa rhodogastra Latham, Suppl. Index Omith., p. lii., 1801 = Petroica multicolor 
Gmelin. 
Muscicapa lathami Vigors, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., p. 410, pi. 13, Jan. 1825 : Tasmania. 
Not Muscicapa lathami Stephens, Gen. Zool., Vol. X., pt. 2, p. 336, 1817. 
Petroica rhodinogaster Jardine and Selby, Illustr. Orn., Vol. II., Add. ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 170, 1879 ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, 
p. 239, 1887 (Tas.) ; id., ib., 1887, p. 88, 1888 (Tas.) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 138, 1901 ; Campbell, A. G., Emu, Vol. II., p. 206, 1903 
(King Island) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 14, 1906 ; Mathews, Hand!. Birds Austral., 
p. 62, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 25, 1910. 
Petroica erythrogaster Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 183, 1846. 
Not Muscicapa erythrogastra Latham, Index Orn., Vol. II., p. 479, 1790. 
Erythrodryas rhodinogaster Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vnx (Vol. III., pi. 1), Sept. 1st, 
1842; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 112, 1843; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 276, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; 
id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., 
p. 161, 1903 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 168, 1913. 
Erythrodryas erythrogastra Cabanis, Mus. Hein., Vol. I., p. 11, 1850. 
Petroica rodinogaster rodinogaster Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 304, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Petroica rodinogaster inexpectata Mathews, ib. : Gippsland, Victoria. 
Erythrodryas rodinogaster rodinogaster Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 168, 1913. 
Erythrodryas rodinogaster inexpectata Mathews, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 227, 1914. 
Distribution. Tasmania. Victoria (South Australia ?). 
Adult male. Top of head, sides of face, throat, hind-neck, sides of neck, entire back, 
upper tail-coverts, and upper wing-coverts dull black ; bastard-wing, primary- 
coverts, and flight-quills dark brown, the last slightly paler on the outer webs 
* The Plate is lettered Petroica rodinogaster. 
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