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Australian robins


  • URI(s)

  • Variants

    • Australasian robins
    • Australo-Papuan robins
    • Eopsaltridae
    • Eopsaltriidae
    • Petroicidae
    • Robins, Australasian
    • Robins, Australian
    • Robins, Australo-Papuan
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  • Sources

    • found: Australian encyc., 1988("Robins, a name applied in Australia to a group of small insectivorous birds ... belonging to genera that are peculiar to the Australian region and which appear to form a connecting link between flycatchers and whistlers. They have no special connection with the robins of other parts of the world, which are of the thrush and warbler families ... Australian robins - numbering 18 species ...")
    • found: The Mitchell Beazley world atlas of birds, 1974:p. 185 ("The Australian robins ... are members of the flycatcher family. They are totally unrelated to the European robin.")
    • found: The Cambridge encyc. of ornith., 1991:p. 159 ("Finally the Corvoidea includes Australian robins (Eopsaltriidae")
    • found: Britannica Micro.('robin, a European bird ... Certain unrelated ground-feeding, thrushlike flycatchers of the family Muscicapidae, of Australia and New Zealand are also called robins ...')
    • found: Sibley, C. Dist. and taxonomy birds world, 1990:p. 444 (Eopsaltriidae)
    • found: Monroe, B. World cklist. birds, 1993:p. 189 (family Petroicidae)
    • found: Hamlyn photographic guide birds world, 1991:p. 42 (Australasian robins; Eopsaltriidae often treated within Muscicapinae)
    • found: Howard, R. A complete checklist of the birds of the world, via ftp, Aug. 13, 2003(Eopsaltridae)
    • found: Bird families of the world : the Sibley and Monroe classification, via WWW, Aug. 13, 2003(family Petroicidae, Australo-Papuan Robins)
    • found: ITIS, Aug. 13, 2003(genus Petroica Swainson, 1829, family Petroicidae)
    • found: Birds of the world : a Clements-like listing, via WWW, Aug. 13, 2003(family Eopsaltriidae, Australasian robins)
    • notfound: Macquarie dict.;Web. 3;Random House;Shorter OED
  • LC Classification

    • QL696.P2439
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  • Change Notes

    • 2003-08-13: new
    • 2003-10-06: revised
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