Chestnut-throated Spinetail (Synallaxis cherriei)

Identification & Behavior: ~13.5 cm (5.2 in). The Chestnut-throated Spinetail has a chestnut-rufous head, breast, and belly. The crown, mantle, and wings are dusky-chestnut. The tail is dusky. The throat is chestnut and concolor with the breast. The juvenile is brownish with a grayish throat. It forages in the understory of second growth, patches of humid scrub, and also in bamboo thickets. It is similar to the widespread Ruddy Spinetail but is distinguished having a chestnut throat, by a more dusky chestnut plumage, and dusky lower belly, rump and tail.

Status: The Chestnut-throated Spinetail is generally uncommon in the isolated populations along the foothill of the Andes (500-1100 m) and Amazonia. It also occurs in Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish:Cola-Espina de Garganta Castaña.

Sub-species: Chestnut-throated Spinetail (Synallaxis cherriei saturata), Carriker, 1934.

Meaning of Name: Synallaxis: Gr. sunallaxeos, sunallaxis= exchange. cherriei: In honor of George Kruck Cherrie (1865-1948) US field ornithologist, collector, adventurer.

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