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Species
Gerygone magnirostris Gould, 1843
Nomenclature
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Family: AcanthizidaeGenus: Gerygone
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SUMMARY
Similar in size and shape to G. levigaster, but with much broader and often longer bill. Nominate race has prominent pale broken eyering, variable white supraloral spot; cold olive-brown above, tail grey-brown, dusky subterminal tailband, indistinct (variable) off-white spots on tips of outer rectrices; whitish below, faint buffish-grey wash on breast side and flanks, stronger on rear flanks; iris red to orange-red; bill black, sometimes dark brown; legs black to flesh-grey. Sexes alike. Juvenile has faint lemon-yellow wash on eyering and chin to breast, less greyish-buff wash on side of chest, iris brown or grey-brown, bill brown or brownish-black, sometimes pale base of lower mandible. Races differ in biometrics and/or in tone of upperparts and extent and tone of buff on underparts: cairnsensis is very like nominate but colder, more olive-brown, above, with larger and bolder tail spots, often richer buff bellow, and has both shorter wing and shorter bill; brunneipectus resembles previous, but supraloral spot less distinct, tail spots poorly defined and often restricted to outer two or three feather pairs; other races differ in minor details of size and plumage.