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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Acanthizidae .
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Examples
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The Biak gerygone (Gerygone hypoxantha) and Biak monarch (Monarcha brehmii) are considered endangered, and the black-winged lory (Eos cyanogenia) is considered vulnerable.
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Although locally common, both the Norfolk Island gerygone (Gerygone modesta) and the slender-billed white-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris) are considered threatened, and the slender-billed white-eye population continues to decline outside protected areas.
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Mr Anderson's study is the first in-depth New Zealand research into the behavioural dynamics of the relationship between the shining cuckoo (pipiwharauroa or Chrysococcyx lucidus) and the grey warbler (riroriro or Gerygone igata).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Psilopus; but that term having been previously employed in Entomology I propose to alter it to Gerygone.)
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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