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The black-chinned robin was formally described in 1874 by the English zoologist Philip Sclater under the binomial name Leucophantes brachyurus. [2] He specified the type locality as Hatam, Arfak Mountains. This was changed by Ernst Mayr in 1941 to Andai, northwestern New Guinea.
The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory bird of the true thrush genus and Turdidae, the wider thrush family. It is named after the European robin [3] because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the Old World flycatcher family. The American robin is ...
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that belongs to the chat subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family. [3] It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except ...
Erithacus (Latin: erithacus; Ancient Greek: ἐρίθακος, romanized: eríthakos, lit. 'robin' (erithacos) [1]) is a genus of passerine bird that contains a single extant species, the European robin (Erithacus rubecula).
Robin Hood, an outlaw in English folklore; Robin Maxwell, a character in the American TV miniseries V and V The Final Battle; Robin Underwood, a character in Nexo Knights; Robin (Chinese: 知更鸟), a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail; Sir Robin, the cowardly knight from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Cossypha are small insectivorous birds, with most species called robin-chats. They were formerly in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now more often treated as part of the Old World flycatcher Muscicapidae. [citation needed]
The western forest robin can be separate from the other members of the genus by the combination of its deep orange throat and breast, white belly, and olive upperparts. [1] It also appears to differ vocally from the other members in the genus, but a comprehensive study on this is lacking. [ 2 ]
The genus Tarsiger was introduced in 1845 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the golden bush robin as the type species. [3] [4] The genus name is from Ancient Greek tarsos, "flat of the foot" and Latin gerere, "to carry". [5] The genus contains the following eight species: [6] White-browed bush robin (Tarsiger indicus)