Musician Wren (Cyphorhinus arada)

Identification & Behavior: ~13.5 cm (5.2 in). The Musician Wren has brown upperparts streaked with dusky on the mantle and barred with black on the flight feathers and tail.  The sides of the neck are also streaked with black. The forehead, and most of the underparts are rufous and grade to brown towards lower belly. It forages on the ground of humid Amazonian forests. It is similar to the Chestnut-breasted Wren but is distinguished by having brown upperparts, rufous forehead, and by ranging at lower elevations in Amazonia.

Status: The Musician Wren is uncommon and widespread in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 1000 m along the foothill of the Andes.It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Cucarachero Musical.

Sub-species: Musician Wren (Cyphorhinus arada salvini), Sharpe, 1882.  S Colombia (Putumayo), E Ecuador and NE Peru (Loreto).
(Cyphorhinus arada modulator), (d’Orbigny), 1838.  lowlands of E Peru, W Brazil (E, S of Amazon, to R Madeira) and N Bolivia.

Meaning of Name: Cyphorhinus: Gr. Kuphos=  hunch, hump and  rhis, rhinos= nose. arada: Cayenne Amerindian name Arada for the Musician Wren

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