Poecilodryas

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| name = Poecilodryas

| image = White-Browed Robin.jpg

| image_caption = White-browed robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa)

| taxon = Poecilodryas

| authority = Gould, 1865

| type_species = Petroica cerviniventris{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=155 |title= Pectroicidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Gould, 1858

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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.{{ cite book | last1=Gould | first1=John | author-link=John Gould | year=1865 | title=Handbook to the Birds of Australia | volume=1 | location=London | publisher=Self-published | page=287 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8459855 }} The type species was subsequently designated as the buff-sided robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris).{{ cite book | last1=Sharpe | first1=R. Bowdler | authorlink1=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | year=1879 | title=Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae Part 1 | volume=4 | publisher=Trustees of the British Museum |location=London | pages=240, 242 | series=Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8307230 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=575 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14484276 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek poikilos "variegated" with dryad "tree-nymph".{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2019 | title=Poecilodryas | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/poecilodryas | accessdate=17 June 2019 }}