Gray Gerygone / Gerygone igata

Gray Gerygone / Gerygone igata

Gray Gerygone

SCI Name:  Gerygone igata
Protonym:  Curruca igata Voy.AstrolabeZool. 1 p.201 AtlasOis. pl.11 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acanthizidae /
Taxonomy Code:  gryger1
Type Locality:  Tasman Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand.
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Publish Year:  1830
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DEFINITIONS

GERYGONE
(Acanthizidae; Ϯ White-throated Gerygone G. olivacea) Gr. γηρυγονος gērugonos  echoes  < γηρυω gēruō  to sing; γονη gonē  offspring, child; "I found it in considerable numbers in every part of the Upper Hunter district, nearly always among the gum-trees, and constantly uttering a peculiar and not very harmonious strain" (Gould 1865); "These birds having been characterised by me under the generic name of Psilopus; but that term having been previously employed in Entomology I propose to alter it to Gerygone" (Gould 1841); "Gerygone Gould, 1841, in G. Grey, Journ. Two Exped. Discovery Northwest Western Australia, 2, p. 417, note. New name for Psilopus Gould, 1838, preoccupied by Psilopus Meigen, 1824." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 444).  
Var. Gerigone, Gerypont.
Synon. Ethelornis, Hapolorhynchus, Leptotodus, Maorigerygone, Ostiarius, Pseudogerygone, Psilopus, Royigerygone, Tinamulus, Wilsonavis.

igata
Maori name Igata for the Grey Gerygone (Gerygone).