- Cranioleuca hellmayri
Identification
14 cm. Short, almost straight, and pointed bill, slender body, tail long and tipped with small spines. The sexes are similar. Dark olive-brown back, rufous tail, olive-brown wings with large rufous patches, white throat, light olive belly, rufous crown streaked with black, white stripe over the eye.
Distribution
Taxonomy
Habitat
Moist montane forests.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects and other small invertebrates.
It bulds a large, bulky, spherical nest of mosses and other fibres, with a side entrance, and attached to a drooping outer limb of a tree. Both the male and female incubate the eggs and rear the nestlings.
