Ochre-cheeked Spinetail
poecilurus scutata
Furnariidae,Synallaxinae · Spinetails, Castaneros
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
5.9" Crown gray-brown, contrasting with the rufous-brown back. Black gular spot and eye stripe. Superciliary stripe white. Whitish below, light buff on chest, flanks ochraceous. Wings and tail rufous.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006
The account, continued
Voice
A faint whistle: 'weeist. . . weeis . . . . weeist . . . weeis . . . weeist . . . weeis' on an upward glissando, i. e., the pitch at the end is higher than at the beginning. Often repeated many times. Can also be heard on 113.
Behavior
Moving about in scrub and brush not far from the ground, usually in pairs.
Habitat and status
Uncommon, in brush and undergrowth of dense or open dry forest and woodland patches.
Distribution
Occurs inland in Est. São Paulo and Minas Gerais (30). Of possible occurrence in our area.
Decoded from the disc's own bytes. Each part is shown under the heading the disc files it under, and the wording, spelling and punctuation are the author's.
Vocalizations
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Call. Pirapora, 11/13/98. Sunny, 30°C. Light gallery forest, scrub.
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Song. Cornell Cat#52808. Chapada dos Guimaraes, Mato Grosso, 06/23/90. With Basileuterus flaveolus, Cyclarhis gujanensis, Piaya cayana?. Recording by D. W. Finch.
Recording files on the disc
- 5212.mp3 Call. Pirapora, 11/13/98. Sunny, 30°C. Light gallery forest, scrub.
- 16357.wav Song. Cornell Cat#52808. Chapada dos Guimaraes, Mato Grosso, 06/23/90. With Basileuterus flaveolus, Cyclarhis gujanensis, Piaya cayana?. Recording by D. W. Finch.
Across the three discs
The work was published on three discs — Disc 2 in 2001, Disc 3 in 2006 and Disc 1 in 2011. Where they differ, that is a difference between historical releases, and it is never merged away. The 2011 disc is not treated as correcting the earlier ones.
Which discs list this bird
- Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list
How that was established
- Disc 2 · 2001
aux_nonzero- Disc 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero- Disc 1 · 2011
aux_nonzero
The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.
Names by release
- Ochre-cheeked Spinetail poecilurus scutatus Disc 2 · 2001
- Ochre-cheeked Spinetail poecilurus scutata Disc 3 · 2006, Disc 1 · 2011
The account in the Disc 1 · 2011 revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
The work's own taxonomy
The discs carried three parallel name schemes. All three are shown as recovered; none is a modern taxonomy and none has been updated.
| Scheme | Scientific name | English name | Family |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORLD | poecilurus scutata | Ochre-cheeked Spinetail | Furnariidae,Synallaxinae |
| CLEMENTS | poecilurus scutata | Ochre-cheeked Spinetail | Furnariidae,Synallaxinae |
| AOU_HM | synallaxis scutata | Ochre-cheeked Spinetail | Furnariidae,Synallaxinae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0065
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0065
- Account number on the disc
- 65
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative