Petroica Boodang Bird

English Name:  Scarlet Robin
Latin Name:  Petroica boodang
Protonym:  Muscicapa boodang J.Navig.Thet.Esperance[Bougainville] 2 p.322
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Petroica
Taxonomy Code:  scarob2
Type Locality:  Sydney, New South Wales.
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PETROICA
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Norfolk Island Robin P. multicolor) Gr. πετρα petra  rock, crag; οικος oikos  dwelling  < οικεω oikeō  to inhabit; "PETROICA multicolor.  Scarlet-breasted Robin.   Family Sylviadæ.   GENERIC CHARACTER.   Bill slender, the sides compressed, the tip gradually bent, and beset with bristles at the base.  Wings long; the first quill spurious; the second intermediate in length between the sixth and seventh.  Tarsi elevated, the inner toe manifestly shorter than the external toe.  Tail broad, even.   ...  Lewin, who wrote upon the spot, observes that although in some respects solitary, it frequents the abodes of man in winter, like the Robin; which it further resembles in its note.  ...   Mr. Caley mentions that he saw "this bird in November" (our European summer), "when far distant in the mountains, in the roughest part of the country I had then or since visited." Linn. Tr. 15. p. 245.  Mr. Caley, moreover, as if perfectly aware of its natural affinities, names it the Australian Redstart." (Swainson 1830); "Petroica Swainson, 1830, Zool. Illustr., ser. 2, pt. 8, pl. 36 and text. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa multicolor Gmelin." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 562).   
Var. Petroeca.   
Synon. Belchera, Erythrodryas, Littlera, Miro, Myiomoira, Myioscopus, Nesomiro, Whiteornis.

boodang
“Cette espèce nommée bouddang par les naturels des environs de Sidney” (Lesson 1837) (cf. “Goo-ba, Aborigines of Western Australia” (Gould 1865)) (Petroica).

SUBSPECIES

Scarlet Robin (Campbell's)
Latin Name: Petroica boodang campbelli
campbelli
● Charles William Campbell (1861-1927) British diplomat, traveller in China and Mongolia (Arborophila).
● Archibald James Campbell (1853-1929) Australian ornithologist, collector (syn. Atrichornis clamosus, syn. Myiagra alecto wardelli, syn. Pardalotus striatus substriatus, subsp. Petroica boodang, syn. Phoebetria fusca, subsp. Phylidonyris novaehollandiae (ex Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina Campbell, 1906), syn. Zapornia tabuensis).
● Robert Watt Campbell (fl. 2017) Scottish ornithologist, ringer (subsp. Chenorhamphus grayi).
● Dr Archibald Campbell (1805-1874) Scottish physician in the Bengal Medical Service, botanist, explorer (syn. Muscicapella hodgsoni).
● Col. W. A. Campbell (1880-1962) South African Army, business magnate, big-game hunter (subsp. Peliperdix coqui).
● Campbell I., Southern Ocean (Phalacrocorax).
● “I would dedicate it to Mr. Campbell, the keeper of the lighthouse [Lighthouse I., Chefoo, China], to whom I am indebted for many good birds during this spring season of migration” (Swinhoe 1873) (syn. Turdus hortulorum).

Scarlet Robin (Scarlet)
Latin Name: Petroica boodang boodang/leggii
PETROICA
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Norfolk Island Robin P. multicolor) Gr. πετρα petra  rock, crag; οικος oikos  dwelling  < οικεω oikeō  to inhabit; "PETROICA multicolor.  Scarlet-breasted Robin.   Family Sylviadæ.   GENERIC CHARACTER.   Bill slender, the sides compressed, the tip gradually bent, and beset with bristles at the base.  Wings long; the first quill spurious; the second intermediate in length between the sixth and seventh.  Tarsi elevated, the inner toe manifestly shorter than the external toe.  Tail broad, even.   ...  Lewin, who wrote upon the spot, observes that although in some respects solitary, it frequents the abodes of man in winter, like the Robin; which it further resembles in its note.  ...   Mr. Caley mentions that he saw "this bird in November" (our European summer), "when far distant in the mountains, in the roughest part of the country I had then or since visited." Linn. Tr. 15. p. 245.  Mr. Caley, moreover, as if perfectly aware of its natural affinities, names it the Australian Redstart." (Swainson 1830); "Petroica Swainson, 1830, Zool. Illustr., ser. 2, pt. 8, pl. 36 and text. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa multicolor Gmelin." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 562).   
Var. Petroeca.   
Synon. Belchera, Erythrodryas, Littlera, Miro, Myiomoira, Myioscopus, Nesomiro, Whiteornis.