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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 4 



HENICORHINA LEUCOSTICTA (Cabanis): White-breasted Wood-Wren, 

 Cucarachero Pechiblanco 



Figure 11 



Cyphorhinus leucostictus Cabanis, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 13 Bd. 1, Heft 2, 1847, 

 p. 206. (Guiana and Mexico (Papantla) = British Guiana; designated by 

 Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., vol. IX, April 1902, p. 5.) 



Small; tail short; foreneck and breast white; side of head black, 

 varied with white lines; a white line over eye. 



Description. — Length 92-105 mm. Back, wings, and tail chestnut- 

 brown; crown dark, varying from grayish brown to black; throat to 

 upper abdomen pure white, without markings; flanks tawny. 



Figure 11. — White-breasted Wood-wren, Cucarachero Pechiblanco, Henicorhina 



leucosticta. 



Juvenile, throat white; foreneck and breast dull gray; colors and 

 markings otherwise as in adult. 



A forest inhabitant, widely distributed. This common species of the 

 lowland forests may be recognized by the pure white of the foreneck 

 and breast. The two subspecies accepted here from Panama are closely 

 similar in size, differing in depth of color in the darker markings of the 

 crown. 



The species ranges from eastern Mexico, Belize, the Caribbean slope 

 of Central America (extending to the Pacific slope in Costa Rica and 

 Panama), through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, southern Venezuela, 

 the Guianas, and the upper Rio Negro region of northern Brazil. 



