Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner (Anabazenops dorsalis)

Identification & Behavior: ~18.5 cm (7.2 in). The Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner has rufous-brown upperparts. The cheeks are grayish and sharply defined from the whitish throat. The underparts are grayish brown. It has a buffy supercilium from the eye and buffy and broken eye-ring. It forages almost exclusively in bamboo stands, particularly in southeast Peru. Further north, if favors stands of mixed cane thickets. It is very similar to the Olive-backed Foliage-Gleaner but is distinguished by rich rufous-brown upperparts, buffy superciliary, and eye-ring, and by being associated with bamboo and cane thickets.

Status: The Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner is uncommon to rare and local along the foothill of the Andes and adjacent Amazonian lowlands. Its range extends farther towards the lowlands in southeastern Peru. It ranges to elevations of up to 1350 m along the east slope of the Andes. The Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Hoja-Rasquero de Mejilla Oscura.

Sub-species: Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner (Anabazenops dorsalis), (P. L. Sclater and Salvin), 1880.

Meaning of Name: Anabazenops: Composed word of two genera. Genus Anabates Temminck, 1820, spinetail; genus Xenops, Illiger, 1811. dorsalis: L. dorsum= back, dorsalis= dorsal, of the back.

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