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[[Image:3337IMG_1034.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Nominate race <br />Photo by {{user|Michael+W|Michael W}} <br/> [[Yanacocha Reserve]], North-western [[Ecuador]]]]
;[[:Category:Ochthoeca|Ochthoeca]] cinnamomeiventris
'''Disambiguation:  Chestnut-bellied Chat-Tyrant, [[Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant]], and [[Blackish Chat-Tyrant]] formerly were one species named Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant. However, IOC left that name in place for what here is called Chestnut-bellied Chat-Tyrant.'''
==Identification==
12–13 cm (4¾-5 in)
*Upperside and head including throat slaty to blackish 
*White [[Topography#Heads|supercilium]] reaches just beyond the eye
*Long [[Dictionary_P-S#R|Rictal]] bristles
*Underside from central breast is deep chestnut

==Distribution==
[[South America]]: found in Andes of [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]] (entire east slope, south on the west slope to Chimborazo), and extreme northern [[Peru]] (east slope, north and west of the Marañón Valley); likely to also reach into [[Venezuela]] at the extreme end of eastern Andes of Colombia.

==Taxonomy==
This is a [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>.

Chestnut-bellied Chat-Tyrant, [[Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant]], and [[Blackish Chat-Tyrant]] formerly were one species named Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant. However, IOC left that name in place for what here is called Chestnut-bellied Chat-Tyrant.

==Habitat==
Along forested streams in mid elevation, to heights around 3000 m [[Dictionary_A-C#A|asl]].
==Behaviour==
====Diet====
Their main diet consists of insects which they wait for on a favorite perch. They rarely join mixed species flocks.
====Vocalisation====
Main sound is a whistle with a buzzy quality which is mostly given with long intervals. A similar whistle may occasionally be followed by multible short "tseet" notes. 
==References==
#{{Ref-Clements6thOct22}}#{{Ref-GillDonskerRasmussen22V13.1}}#Farnsworth, A., H. F. Greeney, and P. F. D. Boesman (2022). Chestnut-bellied Chat-Tyrant (Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (N. D. Sly and S. M. Billerman, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.slbcht2.01
#Birdforum Member observations
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==External Links==
{{GSearch|"Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris" {{!}} "Chestnut-bellied Chat-Tyrant" {{!}} "Chestnut-bellied Chat Tyrant"}}
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