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Philydor novaesi

Photo by Ciro Albano
Frei Caneca Private Reserve, Jaqueira, State of Pernambuco, North-eastern Brazil

[edit] Identification

18 cm

• Reddish-brown plumage
• Dull yellowy-orange forehead and lores, with black scaling
• Blackish-brown crown, with dark olive-brown scaling
• Narrow buffy-cinnamon supercilium and subocular stripe
• Dull chestnut eye-stripe
• Blackish stripe from mandible to auriculars, with chestnut spots
• Greenish-chestnut nape and upperparts
• Rufous rump and tail
• Underparts pale rufous with tinged olive on sides of belly and crissum
  

Sexes are similar.

[edit] Distribution

Very restricted range in the state of Alagoas in North East Brazil, best looked for in Murici an IBAMA reserve.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Interior upland Atlantic forest at 400-550 m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

It builds its nest from clay.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects, including larvae taken from dead wood, beetles, grasshoppers and ants.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. BirdLife International

• List of references

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