• Gerygone Gould, J. in Grey, G. 1841. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in north-west and western Australia, during the years 1837, 38 and 39 under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. (Appendix D, pp. 415-421). [publication date] [417].

  Type species:

   Psilopus albogularis Gould, J., 1838 (= Psilopus olivaceus Gould) by subsequent designation, see Gray, G.R. 1840. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J.E. Taylor viii 80 pp. [Date published Apr 1840: published before Apr.] [22].
• Psilopus Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [pt. 4: 61] [junior homonym of Psilopus Poli, 1795 (Mollusca) and Psilopus Meigen, 1824 (Diptera), and unavailable].

  Type species:

   Psilopus albogularis Gould, J., 1838 by subsequent designation, see Gray, G.R. 1840. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J.E. Taylor viii 80 pp. [Date published Apr 1840: published before Apr.] [22].
• Ostiarius Gistel, J. 1848. Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere schulen bearbeitet. Stuttgart xvi 216 pp., 32 pls. [x] [replacement name for Psilopus Gould 1838, preoccupied by Psilopus Poli, 1795 (Mollusca) and Psilopus Meigen, 1824 (Diptera)].
• Pseudogerygone Sharpe, R.B. 1879. On Pseudogerygone rubra, a remarkable new species of Flycatcher, from the Arfak Mountains, North-Western New Guinea. Notes from the Leyden Museum 1: 29 [Date published Jan 1879] [29].

  Type species:

   Gerygone personata Gould, J., 1866 by original designation.
• Ethelornis Mathews, G.M. 1912. New generic names for Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 1: 105-117 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [110].

  Type species:

   Gerygone magnirostris Gould, J., 1843 by original designation.
• Royigerygone Mathews, G.M. 1912. New generic names for Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 1: 105-117 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [110].

  Type species:

   Gerygone modesta Pelzeln, 1860 by original designation.
• Wilsonavis Mathews, G.M. 1912. New generic names for Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 1: 105-117 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [110].

  Type species:

   Psilopus fuscus Gould, J., 1846 by original designation.
• Maorigerygone Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1913. A Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand. Part 2. Ibis 10 1(3): 402-452 [437].

  Type species:

   Curruca ignata Quoy & Gaimard, 1830 by original designation.

Excluded Taxa

Vagrant Species

ACANTHIZIDAE: Gerygone levigaster pallida Finsch, 1898 [vagrant to Torres Strait Islands]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Great Victoria Desert (GVD) ; WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Mallee (MAL)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

History of changes

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt, tropical rainforest.

General References

David, N. & Gosselin, M. 2002. Gender agreement of avian species names. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 122(1): 14-49 [28] (gerygone is feminine)

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [43] (Green-backed Flyeater, Green-backed Warbler)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Green-backed Gerygone)

History of changes

• Gerygone chloronotus Gould, J. 1843. [Untitled - thirty new species of Australian birds...]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 131-140 [Date published February 1843] [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 777 ♂, NT: Port Essington.

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [220].
• Gerygone chloronota apsleyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606741 adult ♂, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606742 ♂, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E]; AMNH 606743 ♂, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [169].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt, tropical rainforest.

General References

David, N. & Gosselin, M. 2002. Gender agreement of avian species names. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 122(1): 14-49 [28] (feminine)

History of changes

• Gerygone chloronota darwini Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606733 adult ♂, NT: Parry Creek [15°36' S, 128°17' E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606734 ♂, NT: Parry Creek [15ᵒ36'S 128ᵒ17'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [169].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt, tropical rainforest.

History of changes

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Great Victoria Desert (GVD) ; WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Mallee (MAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [43] (Fuscous Flyeater, Fuscous Warbler, Inland Warbler, Sleepy Dick, Southern Warbler, Western Flyeater, Western Warbler, White-tailed Bush-warbler)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Western Gerygone)

History of changes

• Gerygone culicivora exsul Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [309] [published 31 January 1912].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606921 adult ♂, Vic: Rutherglen [36°03' S, 146°28' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [176].
• Pseudogerygone jacksoni Campbell, A.J. 1912. Annotations. The Emu 11: 245-248 [Date published 1 Apr 1912] [247].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV HLW.1540 juvenile unsexed, NSW: Mogil Mogil Station [29°21' S,148°40' E]; NMV HLW.1544 ♂, NSW: Mogil Mogil Station [29°21' S,148°40' E]; NMV HLW.1545 ♀, NSW: Mogil Mogil Station [29°21' S,148°40' E].
• Gerygone culicivora berneyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List. Austral Avian Records 1(5): 118-120 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [119].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606915 adult ♂, Qld: Tambo [24°52' S, 146°13' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [176-177].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Psilopus fuscus Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [pl. 61].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 772 (VN 1053) Unknown, New South Wales; ANSP 773 (VN 1054 Unknown, New South Wales; ANSP 774 (VN 1055) Unknown, New South Wales; LIVCM Unknown Unknown, New South Wales.

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [222].
• Psilopus culicivorus Gould, J. 1841. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Dec. 8, 1840. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840: 168-178 [Date published Jul 1841: publication dated 1840] [174].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 766 (VN 1059) adult ♂, Western Australia.
• Gerygone culicivora wayensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [308] [holotype (examined) a south-western Australian migrant].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606909 adult ♀, WA: Lake Way, East Murchison [26°50' S, 120°25' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [176].
• Gerygone culicivora dendyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [309] [holotype (examined) a south-western Australian migrant].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606914 adult ♂, WA: Mungi Rockhole, 8 miles southeast of Mount Alexander [18ᵒ45' S, 123ᵒ44' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [176].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Gerygone levigaster mungi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [310] [holotype (examined) is of the pallid arid zone form of Gerygone fusca (Gould, 1838)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606923 adult ♂, WA: Mungi Rockhole, 8 miles southeast of Mount Alexander [18ᵒ45' S, 123ᵒ44' E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606924 ♀, WA: Mungi Rockhole, 8 miles southeast of Mount Alexander [18ᵒ45' S, 123ᵒ44' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [177].
• Ethelornis culicivora musgravi Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [130].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606922 adult ♂, SA: Musgrave Range [26°10'S, 131°50'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [177].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Gerygone insularis Ramsay, E.P. 1878. On two new species of Gerygone. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 116-117 [117] [orignally described as Gerygone insularius [Sic]; this name is emended as a justfiable emendation ICdZN Art. 32.2.2].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA adult ♂ (Missing from collection), NSW: Lord Howe Island [26°2'3, 159°15'E].

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [40].
• Gerygone thorpei Ramsay, E.P. 1888. Description of a new species of Gerygone from Lord Howe's Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 677 [677].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.1464 adult ♂, NSW: Lord Howe Island.

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [16].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Extinct

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, subtropical rainforest.

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [31] (full species status)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (as subspecies of ingata)

History of changes

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Human habitation, mangrove or mangal.

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [43] (Buff-breasted Flyeater, Buff-breasted Warbler, Mangrove Flyeater, Mangrove Warbler, Queensland Canary, Singing Flyeater)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Mangrove Gerygone)

History of changes

• Pseudogerygone cantator Weatherill, W.E. 1908. Description of a new Pseudogerygone from south-east Queensland. Queensland Naturalist 1(3): 74-75 [Date published 30 Sep 1908] [74].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM O.12396 ♂, Qld: 'south-east Queensland'.

  Type locality references:

  Ingram, G.J. 1987. Avian type specimens in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 239-254 [242].
• Ethelornis cantator weatherilli Mathews, G.M. 1920. Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 8 xiv + 316 pp. [164].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606962 adult ♂, Qld: Breakfast Creek, Brisbane [27°28'S, 153°02'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606960 adult ♂, Qld: Breakfast Creek, Brisbane [27°28'S, 153°02'E]; AMNH 606961 Immature ♂, Qld: Breakfast Creek, Brisbane [27°28'S, 153°02'E]; AMNH 606963 adult ♀, Qld: Breakfast Creek, Brisbane [27°28'S, 153°02'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [180].
• Gerygone laevigaster cantatrix Mayr, E. 1986. Family Acanthizidae, Australasian Warblers. pp. 409-464 in Mayr, E. & Cottrell, G.W. (eds). Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge: Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. 11 xii + 638 pp. [Date published 1 Jul 1986] [455] [unjustfied emendation of Gerygone levigaster cantator (Weatherill, 1908)].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Human habitation, mangrove or mangal.

History of changes

• Gerygone levigaster Gould, J. 1843. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 11, 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842(10): 131-140 [Date published Feb 1843: publication dated 1842] [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 775 ♂, NT: Port Essington [11°16'S, 132°09'E].
  Paratype(s) ANSP 776 (VN 1052) adult unsexed, NT: Port Essington [11°16'S, 132°09'E].

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [221-222].
• Gerygone laevigaster Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 cii 13 pp., 36 pls. [pt 34] [unjustified emendation of Gerygone levigaster Gould, 1843].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 775 adult unsexed, NT: Port Essington [11°16'S, 132°09'E].
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 776 adult unsexed, NT: Port Essington [11°16'S, 132°09'E].

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [221-222].
• Pseudogerygone laevigastra Sharpe, R.B. 1879. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum Cichlomorphae: Part 1. London : British Museum Vol. 4 xvi + 494 pp. [224] [presumed unjustified emendation of Gerygone levigaster Gould, 1843].
• Gerygone simplex Masters, G. 1876. Zoology of the Chevert. Ornithology. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 1: 44-64 [52].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM O.45259 adult ♂ (ex Macleay Museum (BT1)), Qld: Kimberley (= Karumba), Norman River [17°29'S, 140°50'E]; AM O.45260 adult ♀ (ex Macleay Museum (BT1)), Qld: Kimberley (= Karumba), Norman River [17°29'S, 140°50'E].

  Type locality references:

  Stanbury, P.J. 1969. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney III. Birds. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 93: 457-461 [458]; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [16].
• Pseudogerygone mastersi Sharpe, R.B. 1879. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum Cichlomorphae: Part 1. London : British Museum Vol. 4 xvi + 494 pp. [224] [junior primary homonym of Gerygone simplex Cabanis, 1872 (= Gerygone sulphurea Wallace, 1864)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM O.45259 adult ♂ (formerly Macleay Museum (BT1)), Qld: Kimberley (= Karumba), Norman River [17°29'S, 140°50'E]; AM O.45260 adult ♀ (formerly Macleay Museum (BT1)), Qld: Kimberley (= Karumba), Norman River [17°29'S, 140°50'E].
• Ethelornis normantoni Mathews, G.M. 1920. Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 8 xiv + 316 pp. [169] [published 18 August 1920; junior primary homonym of Pseudogerygone mastersi Sharpe and Gerygone simplex Cabanis, 1872 (= Gerygone sulphurea Wallace, 1864)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606952 adult ♀, Qld: Kimberley (= Karumba), Norman River [17°29'S, 140°50'E]
  Comment: LeCroy (2008) has convincently argued for position of this specimen as the type of the taxon.

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [179].
• Gerygone levigaster broomei Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1: 81-103 [Date published 18 Sep 1912] [89].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606925 adult ♂, WA: Napier Broome Bay [14°03'S, 126°36'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606926 adult ♂, WA: Napier Broome Bay [14°03'S, 126°36'E]; AMNH 606927 adult ♀, WA: Napier Broome Bay [14°03'S, 126°36'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [178].
• Ethelornis levigaster intermissus Mathews, G.M. 1920. Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 8 xiv + 316 pp. [160] [published 18 August 1920].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 606954 adult ♂, NT: Buchanan Islet, Shoal Bay, Melville Island [11°49'S, 130°39'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 606955 adult ♂, NT: Buchanan Islet, Shoal Bay, Melville Island [11°49'S, 130°39'E]; AMNH 606956 adult ♀, NT: Buchanan Islet, Shoal Bay, Melville Island [11°49'S, 130°39'E]; AMNH 606957 adult unsexed, NT: Buchanan Islet, Shoal Bay, Melville Island [11°49'S, 130°39'E]; AMNH 606958 adult ♀, NT: Buchanan Islet, Shoal Bay, Melville Island [11°49'S, 130°39'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [178].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [178].
• Ethelornis levigaster perconfusus Mathews, G.M. 1920. Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 8 xiv + 316 pp. [161] [published 18 August 1920].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 606938 adult ♂, WA: Point Torment, King Sound [17°01'S, 123°35'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 606932 adult unsexed, WA: Point Torment, King Sound [17°01'S, 123°35'E]; AMNH 606936 adult unsexed, WA: Point Torment, King Sound [17°01'S, 123°35'E]; AMNH 606937 adult unsexed, WA: Point Torment, King Sound [17°01'S, 123°35'E]; AMNH 606939 adult unsexed, WA: Point Torment, King Sound [17°01'S, 123°35'E]; AMNH 606940 adult unsexed, WA: Point Torment, King Sound [17°01'S, 123°35'E]; AMNH 606941 adult unsexed, WA: Point Torment, King Sound [17°01'S, 123°35'E]; AMNH 606942 adult unsexed, WA: Point Torment, King Sound [17°01'S, 123°35'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Meise, W. 1931. Zur Systematik der Gattung Gerygone. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 317-379 [Date published 3 Sep 1931] [362].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [178-179].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Human habitation, mangrove or mangal.

History of changes

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical rainforest.

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [43] (Dusky Flyeater, Dusky Warbler, Flood-bird, Large-billed Bush-warbler, Large-billed Flycatcher, Large-billed Flyeater, Large-billed Warbler)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Large-billed Gerygone)

History of changes

• Pseudogerygone brunneipectus Sharpe, R.B. 1879. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum Cichlomorphae: Part 1. London : British Museum Vol. 4 xvi + 494 pp. [221].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1878.11.12.7 adult ♂, Indonesia: Aru Islands; RMNH 136100 ♂, Indonesia: Aru Islands; RMNH 136101 ♂, Indonesia: Aru Islands; RMNH 136102 ♀, Indonesia: Aru Islands; RMNH 136103 ♀, Indonesia: Aru Islands; RMNH 136104 ♀, Indonesia: Aru Islands.

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. & Harrison, C.J.O. 1971. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2 Passerines. London : British Museum vi 628 pp. [79].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical rainforest.

History of changes

• Gerygone magnirostris cairnsensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [309].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606541 adult ♂, Qld: Cairns [16°51'S, 145°43'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606545 adult ♀, Qld: Cairns [16°51'S, 145°43'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [173].
• Ethelornis cairnsensis robini Mathews, G.M. 1920. Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 8 xiv + 316 pp. [151].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 606539 adult ♀, Qld: Piara [10°44'S, 142°34'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 606536 adult ♂, Qld: Thursday Island [10°35'S, 142°13'E]; AMNH 606537 Adult ♀?, Qld: Cable Station, Cape York; AMNH 606538 adult unsexed, Qld: Cable Station, Cape York.

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [173].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical rainforest.

History of changes

• Gerygone magnirostris Gould, J. 1843. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 11, 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842(10): 131-140 [Date published Feb 1843: publication dated 1842] [133].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 771 adult ♀ (this is noted as a male by Stone & Mathews (1913: 156)), NT: Port Essington [11°16'S, 132°09'E].
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 770 adult ♂, NT: Port Essington [11°16'S, 132°09'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129-180 [Date published 28 Feb 1913] [156].

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [221].
• Gerygone magnirostris melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606554 adult ♂, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11ᵒ35'S, 144ᵒ28'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606555 Unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E]; AMNH 606556 Unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E]; AMNH 606557 Unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E]; AMNH 606559 Unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E]; AMNH 606566 Unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E]; AMNH 606567 Unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E]; AMNH 606568 Unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E]; AMNH 606569 Unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island [11°35' S, 130°28' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [173].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical rainforest.

History of changes

• Gerygone modesta von Pelzeln, A. 1860. Zur ornithologie der insel Norfolk. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 41: 319-332 [320].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMW 51.157 adult unsexed, Norfolk Island; NMW (Destroyed), Norfolk Island.

  Type locality references:

  Schifter, H. 1992. Die Vögel aus dem Nachlaß Ferdinand Lucas Baue im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien und die darunter befindlichen Typen. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 93(B): 41-57 [44].
• Gerygone mathewsae Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [449] ["Gerygone mathewsae was a nomen novum provided by Mathews (1912) for Gerygone modesta Pelzeln, 1860 (not Gould). Apparently, Pelzeln’s name was not preoccupied by any name proposed by Gould" (LeCroy, 2008)].

  Secondary source:

   LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [182].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Norfolk Island only

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, human habitation, subtropical rainforest.

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [31] (full species status)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (as subspecies of ingata)

History of changes

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [43] (Brown Bush-warbler, Brown Flyeater, Brown Warbler, Citron-bird, Northern Warbler, Queensland Flyeater)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Brown Gerygone)

History of changes

• Gerygone igata amalia Meise, W. 1931. Zur Systematik der Gattung Gerygone. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 317-379 [Date published 3 Sep 1931] [353].

  Type data:

   Holotype MTKD C 27188 adult unsexed, Qld: Bowen [20°01S, 148°15'E].
  Paratype(s) ZMH Unknown Unknown, Qld: Bowen [20°01S, 148°15'E]
  Comment: Both type speciimens were destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII.

  Secondary source:

   Parker, S.A., Boles, W.E. & Longmore, N.W. 1985. The rediscovery and taxonomic relationships of Gerygone igata amalia Meise, 1931. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 105: 118-121.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Gerygone laevigaster mouki Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [310].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606877 adult ♀, Qld: Barron River (Kuranda area) [16°46'S, 145°37'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [181].
• Gerygone pallida North, A.J. 1904. Nests and Eggs of Birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney : Australian Museum Spec. Cat. 1 Vol. 1 vii + 366 pp. [196] [junior homonym of Gerygone pallida Finsch, 1898 (= Gerygone levigaster pallida Finsch, 1898)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM O.3577 adult ♀, Qld: Boar Pocket, Bellenden Ker Range [17°12'S, 145°37'E]; AM O.3578 adult ♂, Qld: Boar Pocket, Bellenden Ker Range [17°12'S, 145°37'E].

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [16].

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1924. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 45: 41 [Date published Dec 1924] [41] (replacement name for Gerygone pallida, preoccupied).
• Ethelornis mouki keri Mathews, G.M. 1924. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 45: 41 [Date published Dec 1924] [41] [replacement name for Gerygone pallida North, 1903, preoccupied by Gerygone pallida Finsch].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM O.3577 adult ♀, Qld: Boar Pocket, Bellenden Ker Range [17°12'S, 145°37'E]; AM O.3578 adult ♂, Qld: Boar Pocket, Bellenden Ker Range [17°12'S, 145°37'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Wilsonavis fusca richmondi Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [129].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 606867 adult ♂, NSW: Richmond R [28°3S'S, 153°35'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 606869 ♀, NSW: Richmond R [28°3S'S, 153°35'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [182].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [181-182].
• Wilsonavis richmondi gouldiana Mathews, G.M. 1920. Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 8 xiv + 316 pp. [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606866 ♂?, NSW: Gosford [33ᵒ25'S, 151ᵒ18'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [182].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Subtropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [183] (argue for use of albogularis Gould as the senior synonym)

ICZN 2009. Opinion 2240 (Case 3418). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(4): 375-378 [375] ('olivaceus Gould, 1838, as published in the binomen Psilopus olivaceus' conserved)

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [43] (Bush Canary, Grey Flyeater, Native Canary, White-throated Bush-warbler, White-throated Flyeater, White-throated Warbler)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (White-throated Gerygone)

History of changes

• Gerygone cinerascens Sharpe, R.B. 1878. Contributions to the Ornithology of New Guinea. Part IV. On the collection of birds brought by Mr. Ocatvius C. Stone from south-eastern New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 13: 486-505 [Date published 27 Feb 1878] [496].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1877.2.9.16 adult unsexed, Papua New Guinea: South east.

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. & Harrison, C.J.O. 1971. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2 Passerines. London : British Museum vi 628 pp. [116].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

History of changes

• Psilopus olivaceus Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [pl. 61] [published 1 April 1838; Christidis & Boles (2008) argued that this name be treated as junior to simultaneously published Psilopus albogularis Gould, 1838, and it was treated thus by Gould, Handbook to the Birds of Australia 2(1865)266 in accord with ICdZN Art. 24.2 — nevertheless, olivaceus Gould often was treated as a nomen protectum under ICdZN Art. 23.9, having been used as senior in almost all major references since 1899; it was accorded priority in ICZN (2009) Opinion 2240].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 765 juvenile, New South Wales.

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [220-221].
• Psilopus albogularis Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [pl. 61] [published 1 April 1838; suppressed by Opinion 2240 (ICZN 2009: 375)].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 763 ♂, New South Wales.

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [220].

  Secondary source:

   McAllan, I.A.W. 2007. Existing usage and the names of some Australian birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 127(2): 136-145 [141-142]; Schodde, R., Bock, W.J. & Steinheimer, F. 2007. Stabilising the nomenclature of Australasian birds by invalidation and suppression of disused and dubious senior names. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 127(4): 268-282 [277-278].
• Gerygone albigularis Sharpe, R.B. 1879. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum Cichlomorphae: Part 1. London : British Museum Vol. 4 xvi + 494 pp. [212] [variant spelling deemed identical to albogularis Gould under ICdZN Art. 58.12].
• Acanthiza flavigaster Diggles, S. 1876. Australian birds. Brisbane Courier 31(2874): 3 [Date published 5 Aug 1876] [3].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) Unknown, Qld: Normanton [17ᵒ40'S, 141ᵒ05'E]; Unknown, Qld: Normanton [17ᵒ40'S, 141ᵒ05'E]; Unknown, Qld: Normanton [17ᵒ40'S, 141ᵒ05'E].

  Type locality references:

  Ingram, G.J. 1987. Avian type specimens in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 239-254 [243].
• Acanthiza flavigasta Diggles, S. 1876. Australian birds. Brisbane Courier 31(2874): 3 [Date published 5 Aug 1876] [3] [presumed unjustified emendation of Acanthiza flavigaster Diggles, 1876, published in separate pamphlet after 5 August 1876].

  Secondary source:

   Diggles, S. 1878. Some New and Rare Species of Birds. Proceedings of the Queensland Philosophical Society 1876: 9-12 [11] (reprint of original newspaper article).
• Gerygone albogularis queenslandica Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [308].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606404 adult unsexed, Qld: Inkerman [19°45'S, 147°29'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606405 Unknown, Qld: Inkerman [19°45'S, 147°29'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [170-171].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Gerygone albogularis Sharpe, R.B., 1879 [variant spelling deemed identical to albigularis under ICdZN Art. 58.12].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [183] (argued for priority of the name albogularis over olivaceus)

ICZN 2009. Opinion 2240 (Case 3418). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(4): 375-378 [375] ('albogularis Gould, 1838, as published in the binomen Psilopus albogularis' 'suppressed for the Purposes Principle of Priority, but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy')

History of changes

• Gerygone albigularis rogersi Mathews, 1911.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

History of changes

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

Nomenclatural details of nominate taxon, not in Australia

Gerygone palpebrosa Wallace, A.R. (1865). Descriptions of new birds from the Malay Archipelago. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865: 474-481 [475].
Type data: holotype BMNH 1873.5.12.203 Immature ♂*.
Type locality: Indonesia: Aru Islands.

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [43] (Black-throated Flyeater, Black-throated Warbler, Fairy Flyeater, Fairy Warbler, Hornet-nest Bird, Yellow Warbler)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Fairy Gerygone)

History of changes

• Gerygone flavida Ramsay, E.P. 1877. On a new species of Gerygone. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2(1): 53-54 [Date published Jul 1877] [53].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.18590 adult ♂ (Co-ordinates approximate), Qld: Upper Herbert River [18ᵒ43' S, 146ᵒ02' E].

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [16].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

History of changes

• Gerygone personata Gould, J. 1866. Additions to the List of the Avifauna of Australia, with descriptions of three new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 217-218 [Date published 1 Oct 1866] [217].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1868.1.27.19 adult ♂, Qld: Cape York.

  Type locality references:

  Sharpe, R.B. 1879. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum Cichlomorphae: Part 1. London : British Museum Vol. 4 xvi + 494 pp. [230]; Warren, R.L.M. & Harrison, C.J.O. 1971. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2 Passerines. London : British Museum vi 628 pp. [430].
• Pseudogerygone personata watsoni Mathews, G.M. 1917. New subspecies and notes on species. Austral Avian Records 3(4): 69-78 [Date published 21 Jul 1917] [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606473 adult ♂, Qld: Watson R [13ᵒ20'S, 141ᵒ50'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [170].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

History of changes

• Pseudogerygone personata johnstoni Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [59] [type material intergradient between Gerygone palpebrosa personata Gould, 1866 and G. p. flavida E.P. Ramsay, 1877].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606458 adult ♂, Qld: Johnstone River [17ᵒ31'S, 146ᵒ03'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [170].

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

History of changes

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Mangrove or mangal.

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Dusky Gerygone)

History of changes

• Gerygone tenebrosa christophori Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [311].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606634 adult ♂, WA: Carnarvon [24°53' S, 113°40' E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606635 ♀, WA: Carnarvon [24°53' S, 113°40' E]; AMNH 606636 ♀, WA: Carnarvon [24°53' S, 113°40' E]; AMNH 606637 ♀, WA: Carnarvon [24°53' S, 113°40' E]; AMNH 606638 ♀, WA: Carnarvon [24°53' S, 113°40' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [177-178].
• Ethelornis magnirostris whitlocki Mathews, G.M. 1915. Two new subspecies. Austral Avian Records 3(1): 24 [Date published 30 Jun 1915] [24].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 606640 adult ♀, WA: Port Hedland [20°18S, 118°36'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 606641 ♀, WA: Port Hedland [20°18S, 118°36'E]; AMNH 606642 ♀, WA: Port Hedland [20°18S, 118°36'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [177].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Pilbara (PIL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Mangrove or mangal.

History of changes

• Pseudogerygone tenebrosa Hall, R. 1901. Description of a new species of Pseudogerygone. Victorian Naturalist 18(5): 78-79 [Date published Sep 1901] [79].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV B.1433 ♂, WA: Fitzroy River.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Mangrove or mangal.

History of changes