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Vila Bela de Santíssima Trindade, Mato Grosso, Brazil, March 2003

Myrmeciza atrothorax

Includes Spot-breasted Antbird

[edit] Identification

14cm
Male

• Olive-brown above
• Black tail
• White spots on wing-coverts
• Grey head, sides of neck and underparts
• Black throat, breast and central belly
• Black iris
  

Female - similar apart from white throat and rufous belly

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

[edit] Taxonomy

Several subspecies.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• M. a. metae:

• Central Colombia (Meta, western Guaviare)

• M. a. atrothorax:

• Eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Amazonian Brazil

• M. a. tenebrosa:

• Eastern Ecuador north of River Amazon, north-eastern Peru and northern Brazil

• M. a. maynana:

• North-central Peru (south of Río Marañón and west of Río Huallaga)

• M. a. melanura:

• Eastern Peru south of River Amazon to northern Bolivia and west and central Brazil

Two additional subspecies, obscurata and griseiventris are not generally recognised^[2]

Subspecies M. a. stictothorax has in the past been split as Spot-breasted Antbird, but currently, it is thought that the two specimens belonged within subspecies M. a. melanura.

[edit] Habitat

Dense undergrowth at the edges of forest and woodland especially near swamps or streams, below 500m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects and arthropods.

[edit] Breeding

Monogamous. The clutch consists of 2 eggs. Incubation and care of the young is shared by both adults.

[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. Avibase
3. SACC baseline with information about M. a. stictothorax read April 2010
4. Arthur Grosset
5. Answers.com

• List of references

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