Gray-headed Robin / Heteromyias cinereifrons

Gray-headed Robin / Heteromyias cinereifrons

Gray-headed Robin

SCI Name:  Heteromyias cinereifrons
Protonym:  Poecilodryas? cinereifrons Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1875) (1875), Pt4 p.588
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Petroicidae /
Taxonomy Code:  gyhrob2
Type Locality:  near Cardwell, Rockingham Bay.
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Publish Year:  1876
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DEFINITIONS

HETEROMYIAS
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Grey-headed Robin H. cinereifrons) Gr. ἑτερος heteros  different; Mod. L. myias  flycatcher  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; πιαζω piazō  to seize; "PŒCILODRYAS? CINEREIFRONS, sp. nov.  ...  In habits and actions this species closely resembles the Eopsaltriæ, and like them may be seen perching frequently on the side of the upright stems of the trees" (Ramsay 1875); "h6. Wings long, falling short of the tail by about as much as the length of the hind toe and claw.  ...  f7. Feet larger, the middle toe longer than the hind toe and claw. . . 24. HETEROMYIAS, p. 239.   ...   HETEROMYIAS.  Pœcilodryas, Ramsay, pt.  ...  1. Heteromyias cinereifrons." (Sharpe 1879); "Heteromyias Sharpe, 1879, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 4, p. [114 (in key),] 239. Type, by monotypy, Poecilodryas? cinereifrons Ramsay." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 580).
Synon. Iredaleornis.

cinereifrons
L. cinereus  ash-grey  < cinis, cineris  ashes; frons, frontis  forehead, brow.