Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

Scrub R.—
<i>Drymodes brunneopygia</i>, Gould.

White-browed R.
<i>Poecilodryas superciliosa</i>, Gould.

White-faced Scrub-R.—
<i>Drymodes superciliaris</i>, Gould.

The New Zealand species are—

Chatham Island Robin—
<i>Miro traversi</i>, Buller.

North Island R.—
<i>M. australis</i>, Sparrm.

South Island R.—
<i>M. albifrons</i>, Gmel.

Gould's enumeration of the species is given below. [See quotations, 1848, 1869.]

See also <i>Shrike-Robin</i>, <i>Scrub-Robin</i>, and <i>Satin-Robin</i>.

1827. Vigors and Horsfield, `Transactions of the Linnaean Society,' vol. xv. p. 242: