Thornbills (Acanthizidae)

Mangrove Gerygone (Gerygone levigaster) - HBW 12, p. 597

French: Gérygone des mangroves German: Mangrovegerygone Spanish: Gerigón de Manglar
Other common names: Mangrove Warbler

Taxonomy: Gerygone levigaster Gould, 1843, Port Essington Coburg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia.
Probably forms a species group with G. flavolateralis and G. fusca, and in past sometimes treated as conspecific with latter; has been thought to be related to G. sulphurea; and was considered possibly conspecific with G. inornata. In past, sometimes considered to include extinct G. insularis (Lord Howe I) as a race. Three subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

pallida Finsch, 1898 - coastal S New Guinea from Triton Bay and R Mimika E to Port Moresby region.
levigaster Gould, 1843 - N Western Australia (NW edge of Great Sandy Desert E to Roebuck Bay) E patchily along coast (including Groote Eylandt and Mornington I) to N Queensland (S to Princess Charlotte Bay, in NE Cape York Peninsula).
cantator (Weatherill, 1908) - coastal E Australia from NE Queensland (Cleveland Bay) S to Sydney region of New South Wales.