GERYGONE LACVIGASTER, Gouid. 
Buff-breasted Gerygone. 
Gerygone levigaster, Gould in Proce. of Zool. Soc., Part X. p. 133. 
Mr. Gizert killed several specimens of this little bird on the Cobourg Peninsula, and on the islands in 
Van Diemen’s Gulf, and sometimes observed a solitary individual among the mangroves near the settlement 
of Port Essington. He states that it has a very pleasing but weak piping note, and occasionally utters a 
number of notes in slow succession, but not so much lengthened as those of the Gerygone culecivorus of 
Swan River; like that bird it hovers up and down the smaller branches of the trees and creeps about the 
thickets. It is very tame, and scarcely ever flies from the tree upon the approach of an intruder, but sits 
turning its little head about from side to side until the hand is almost upon it, when it merely hops upon 
another branch and again quietly looks about, apparently quite unconcerned. 
The stomach is tolerably muscular, and the food consists of small insects, principally of the soft-wmged 
kinds. 
A narrow obscure line, commencing at the nostrils and passing over the eye, yellowish white; all the 
upper surface rusty brown; primaries brown, margined with lighter brown; tail whitish at the base, 
eradually deepening into nearly black, the lateral feather largely, and the remainder, except the two middle 
ones, slightly tipped with white; all the under surface white, slightly washed with yellow; irides light 
reddish brown ; bill olive-brown; base of lower mandible light ash-grey ; feet dark greenish grey. 
The figures represent the two sexes of the natural size. 
