Xenicus gilviventris
New Zealand Rockwren
Xenicus gilviventris
Classificação Ciêntifica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Classe: Aves
Ordem: Passeriformes
Família : Acanthisittidae
Distribution:Mountain areas of South I, New Zealand.
Plumage appears to vary clinally, males becoming brighter from N to S; supposedly smaller, more greenish birds in S (Fiordland) described as race rineyi, but now considered only a bright morph. Monotypic.