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Lord Howe gerygone
The Lord Howe gerygone (''Gerygone insularis''), is known by many names. Locally it is known as the "rain-bird" due to its activity after the rains or the "pop-goes-the-weasel",〔Hindwood, p. 68.〕 due to the similarity of its song to the well-known tune.〔Paramonov, S.J.,1960, “Lord Howe Island, a Riddle of the Pacific. Part II” ''Pacific Science'', Vol. 14, Mãnoa, p.77〕 Another name for this bird is the Lord Howe gerygone flyeater. Endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea (part of New South Wales, Australia), it was a small bird in the Acanthizidae family, brown and greyish in color. Its head was brown apart from a pale grey eye-ring and a grey throat and chin, many parts of the animal varied to the colour of yellow, this being apparent in its bright yellow belly. It made its home in the canopies of 〔Bird Life. Lord Howe Gerygone Gerygone insularis. Access: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=5454 Accessed Thurs 24 Oct 2013 9:50:20〕 the island's forest until the early 20th century. There have been no records of the species since 1928 and it is considered to be extinct. Its extinction is almost certainly due to predation by black rats which were accidentally introduced to the island in 1918 following the shipwreck of the SS ''Makambo'' there.〔Garnett & Crowley, p. 477.〕
==Taxonomy==
There is much conflict in scientific literature regarding the exact taxonomic divisions of the gerygone species in the area. The ''Gerygone insularis'' was previously referred to as the Pseudogerygone insularis. There is also a significant mention of a species, ''Gerygone thorpe'' Ramsay but, other than a smaller size there is not apparent evidence that this was (biologically) a separate species.〔Hull, Basset A.F., 1909, "The Bird of Lorde Howe and Norfolk Islands" ''The proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', Vol. 34, p.680-682〕 The bird is more widely referred to as the ''Gerygone insularis'' as named by Ramsey in 1879.
The ''Gerygone insularis'' was also considered a subspecies of a broader taxon ''Gerygone'' which included the ''G. modesta'' (Norfolk Island) and the ''G. igata'' (Mainland New Zealand) 〔''Avibase-the world bird database'', "Grey, Lord Howe or Norfolk Island Gerygone", (Avibase )〕
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