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Poecilodryas
White-browed robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Petroicidae
Genus:	Poecilodryas Gould, 1865
Type species
Petroica cerviniventris Gould, 1858
Species
see text

Poecilodryas is a genus of passerine birds in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae.

The genus was erected by the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould in 1865. The type species was subsequently designated as the buff-sided robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris). The genus name combines the Ancient Greek poikilos "variegated" with dryad "tree-nymph".

Species

The genus contains three species:

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Poecilodryas hypoleuca	Black-sided robin	Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
	Poecilodryas superciliosa	White-browed robin	north-eastern Australia
	Poecilodryas cerviniventris	Buff-sided robin	northern Australia

Formerly, some authorities also placed the following species (or subspecies) in the genus Poecilodryas:

• Brown-backed whistler (now Pachycephala modesta in the family Pachycephalidae)
• Golden monarch (nitidus) (now Carterornis nitida in the family Monarchidae)
• Black-throated robin (now Plesiodryas albonotata)
• Banded yellow robin (now Gennaeodryas placens)

References

1. "Pectroicidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. Gould, John (1865). Handbook to the Birds of Australia. Vol. 1. London: Self-published. p. 287.
3. Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1879). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae Part 1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 4. London: Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 240, 242.
4. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 575.
5. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Poecilodryas". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
6. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
7. "Pachycephala modesta - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
8. "Carterornis chrysomela nitidus - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
9. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 576–577.

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