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Species
Gerygone levigaster Gould, 1843
Nomenclature
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Family: AcanthizidaeGenus: Gerygone
Media
SUMMARY
Nominate race is grey-brown above, with distinct narrow dark loral stripe, obvious white supercilium ending just behind eye, narrow white broken eyering (most obvious on lower half); tail distinctive, with broad blackish subteminal band, large white spots on inner webs of all except central rectrices, and indistinct diffuse white band across base of outermost 2 – 3 pairs; white below, upper flanks generally washed light grey-brown, lower flanks tinged creamy; iris red; bill black, sometimes grey base of lower mandible; legs black. Distinguished from G. magnirostris most readily by supercilium. Sex alike. Juvenile is variably washed lemon-yellow on face, eyering, neck side, throat and breast, with yellow fringes on remiges, eye brown, bill brownish and fading to pale horn at base. Race pallida is browner above, lacks white at bases and near tips of outer webs of outer rectrices; cantanor has marginally longer wing, tarsus and tail and is heavier than nominate, on average slightly darker above, slightly grey-tinged on chin to breast, generally less white at tail base (variable).