- Myrmotherula schisticolor
Identification
10 cm. Dark slate, black throat and breast, black wings with white spots, and a concealed white shoulder patch. The adult female is olive-brown above and buff-brown below, paler on the throat. Young males are darker, duller and greyer than the adult female.
Distribution
Southern Mexico to western Ecuador and eastern Peru.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Wet forest.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects and spiders, taken from foliage.
It builds a deep pouch nest from plant fibres which is suspended from the fork of a thin twig less than 2 m up. 2 red-brown spotted white eggs are laid and incubated by both sexes The male and female parents both feed the chicks.
