Chicli Spinetail

synallaxis spixi

Furnariidae,Synallaxinae · Spinetails, Castaneros

Disc 2 · 2001 listed
Disc 3 · 2006 listed
Disc 1 · 2011 listed

The account

Description

6.3" Crown rufous. Back olive-brown. Black throat patch. Below gray becoming olivaceous on the lower flanks and paler in the center of the abdomen. Tail long, consisting of olivaceous-brown acuminate feathers.

Immature plumage has no rufous, but a dark brown crown. Below chiefly ochraceous brown with no black gular patch.

The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Chicli Spinetail at 21 localities.

Historical checklist localities on the disc's own area map — the red dots the original program drew, placed by its recovered projection. Not a range map: it shows the places whose checklists record the bird, nothing more. 1 has no usable coordinate and is listed below unplotted.

Barreiro Rico BRSB
Boraceia BOSB
Campos do Jordão CASB
Fazenda Intervales FASB
Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
Itirapina ITSB
Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
Parati PARB
PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
PE Jacupiranga PJSB
Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
Rio de Janeiro RIRB
Santa Barbara do Rio Pardo SNSB
Serra Bocaina SESB
Serra da Cantareira SRSB
Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
Serras de Japi e Ermida SDSB
Sete Barras STSB
Ubatuba UBSB

How the map was made

The original program computed each red dot at display time from the locality's coordinates, using its map library and one of five base maps drawn for the screen widths of the day. That library's projection — an oblique rotation of the sphere about the map's own centre, 23.7°S 47.4°W — was read from the program and checked against the graticule the same program drew into the base maps: it reproduces every grid intersection to within about a pixel. The dots here use that projection on the 1280-pixel base map, with the coordinates the discs record. Nothing was placed by hand, no modern map data was used, and a place whose coordinate is incomplete, out of range or beyond the map's edge is listed rather than guessed.

The discs carried location maps only; none shows a distribution or range.

Voice

'wit di-di-di....... wit di-di-di...' the three last sounds a little bit higher pitched than the 'wit' sound. Repeated many times. Can also be heard on ¹¹³.

Behavior

Climbing around in bushes and undergrowth, hard to see, if not singing.

Breeding

Builds a stick nest with long side entrance in a tree (³⁰).

Habitat and status

Common in scrubby borders of woodland and of grassland thickets.(⁴⁴).

Distribution

Throughout, sea level to about 2000 meters.

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

Song. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 11/3/93. Sunny, 25°C. Secondary forest, scrub. With Grallaria varia, Attila rufus, Pachyramphus polychopterus, Todirostrum plumbeiceps.
Calls, Ubatuba, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, top of the escarpment, 11/01/98. Cloudy, 22°C. With Crypturellus obsoletus, Pyriglena leucoptera, Vireo olivaceus.
Song. Cornell Cat#22085. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 10/29/80. With Piaya cayana, Cyclarhis gujanensis. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
Song, call, Serra Bocaina, 11/3/93. Sunny, 25°C. Scrub. With Todirostrum plumbeiceps

Recording files on the disc

3729.mp3 Song. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 11/3/93. Sunny, 25°C. Secondary forest, scrub. With Grallaria varia, Attila rufus, Pachyramphus polychopterus, Todirostrum plumbeiceps.
14781.wav Calls, Ubatuba, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, top of the escarpment, 11/01/98. Cloudy, 22°C. With Crypturellus obsoletus, Pyriglena leucoptera, Vireo olivaceus.
8419.wav Song. Cornell Cat#22085. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 10/29/80. With Piaya cayana, Cyclarhis gujanensis. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
5727.mp3 Song, call, Serra Bocaina, 11/3/93. Sunny, 25°C. Scrub. With Todirostrum plumbeiceps

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;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
Disc 3 · 2006: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
Disc 1 · 2011: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1

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.

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	synallaxis spixi	Chicli Spinetail	Furnariidae,Synallaxinae
CLEMENTS	synallaxis spixi	Chicli Spinetail	Furnariidae,Synallaxinae
AOU_HM	synallaxis spixi	Chicli Spinetail	Furnariidae,Synallaxinae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0068
Account identifier: seb_account_0068
Account number on the disc: 68
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative