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'''Gerygone''', the 'gerygones', is a genus of bird in the Pardalotidae family. The genus ranges from South East Asia, through New Guinea and Australia to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. Most of the species are found in Australia and New Guinea, only one, the Golden-bellied Gerygone has managed to cross the Wallace's Line and colonise as far as Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Gerygones are insectivores which obtain most of their food by gleaning and snatching in the foliage of trees and bushes. They are small, mostly weighing an average of 6-7 g, and show little variation in size across their range, except for the insular Chatham Island Warbler, which is nearly twice as large as the rest of the genus.
It contains the following species:

★ Chatham Island Warbler, ''Gerygone albofrontata''

★ Green-backed Gerygone, ''Gerygone chloronota''

★ Yellow-bellied Gerygone, ''Gerygone chrysogaster''

★ Mountain Gerygone, ''Gerygone cinerea''

★ Rufous-sided Gerygone, ''Gerygone dorsalis''

★ Fan-tailed Gerygone, ''Gerygone flavolateralis''

★ Western Gerygone, ''Gerygone fusca''

★ Grey Warbler, ''Gerygone igata''

★ Plain Gerygone, ''Gerygone inornata''

★ Lord Howe Gerygone, ''Gerygone insularis'' - extinct (c.1930)

★ Mangrove Gerygone, ''Gerygone levigaster''

★ Norfolk Island Gerygone, ''Gerygone modesta''

★ White-throated Gerygone, ''Gerygone olivacea''

★ Fairy Gerygone, ''Gerygone palpebrosa''

★ Brown-breasted Gerygone, ''Gerygone ruficollis''

★ Golden-bellied Gerygone, ''Gerygone sulphurea''

★ Dusky Gerygone, ''Gerygone tenebrosa''

★ Brown Gerygone, ''Gerygone mouki''

★ Large-billed Gerygone, ''Gerygone magnirostris''

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★ Biak Gerygone, ''Gerygone magnirostris hypoxantha''

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Keast A & Recher H (1997) "The adaptive zone of the genus ''Gerygone'' (Acanthizidae) as shown by morphology and feeding habits." ''Emu'' '97'(1): 1-17