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Crypturellus soui

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Location: Caratinga, Brazil

[edit] Identification

23cm. Upperparts cinnamon to chestnut, throat white, foreneck brownish becoming cinnamon buff on belly, brighter in female. Head and rear of neck sooty-brown, darker in female. Legs greyish, olive or yellowish.

[edit] Distribution

Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia and Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

Subspecies Race meserythrus occurs from Mexico to Honduras, modestus from Nicaragua to Panama, capnodes in north-west Panama and poliocephalus in western Panama. In South America: caucae occurs in western Colombia, harterti in north-west Colombia and west Ecuador, mustelinus in north-east Colombia, caqueta in south-east Colombia, nigriceps in east Ecuador, soui from eastern Colombia to the Guianas and northern Brazil, albigularis in eastern Brazil, inconspicuus in central Bolivia. Race andrei is found on Trinidad and panamensis on the Pearl Islands of Panama although this population may be an ancient introduction.

[edit] Habitat

Rain forest, cloud forest and forest edge.

[edit] Behaviour

Its nest is a depression in forest floor, sometimes lined with a few leaves and usually at the base of a tree or bush. 1-2, reddish to chocolate-brown eggs are laid and incubated by male.

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