Pallid Spinetail

5.1 Rufescent olive-brown above. Crown reddish-brown which is barred dark across front, buffy superciliary conspicuous. Wings rufous-chestnut with pale rufous coverts. Tail rusty with pointed feathers. Throat white. Below ochraceous yellow. <NImmature plumage is duller. Crown dark brown. Below more dark ochraceous breast and the upper abdomen with faint, dark barring. Song typically "zizizizizizizirrrr" somewhat descending at the end | sometimes continues 4-5 times longer than usual. Calls a sequence of "zep zep zep" notes continuing for minutes. Also double syllables like "zillip zillip...". Actively clambers about in a tit-like fashion in dense foliage, epiphytes and moss. At times hard to see. Sick ^30 , describes a nest sitting on a branch with a side entrance leading through a tubular duct around the nest inside through the top. Not uncommon in humid primary and secondary forests and borders at higher altitude above 800 meters . Higher altitudes of the costal ranges e. g.<8E>Serra Bocaina<8E>, also on top of the escarpment near<8E>Ubatuba<8E> and further inland e. g. in the <8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os, Serra Mantiqueira, and<8E>Campos do Jord<C4>o<8E>. A distinctive voice of the montane forest, in semi-open and forested areas. 11313 Song. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 11<10>9<10>93. Cloudy, 19<91>C. Secondary forest, ca. 1800 meters.: 11188 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11<10>18<10>98. Sunny, 20<91>C. Cloud forest. With /Tijuca atra, Basileuterus leucoblepharus .: 6540 Song. Cornell Cat 32055. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 11<10>12<10>83. With /Drymophila rubricollis, Heliobletus contaminatus, Lepidocolaptes squamatus , /Cyclarhis gujanensis, Camptostoma obsoletum, Phyllomyias fasciatus, Basileuterus leucoblepharus, Pionopsitta pileata, Sirystes sibilator . Recording by T. A. Parker, Jr.: 1901 Calls. Cornell Cat 48358. Itatiaia National Park, 10<10>07<10>88, mobbing /Glaucidium brasilianum . With /Clytolaema rubricauda, Chiroxiphia caudata, Ramphastos vitellinus . Recording by P. Isler.: 8295 Song, call. Cornell Cat 52821 Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Maromba bridge, 06<10>27<10>90. Recording by D. W. Finch.: 50 Calls, Ubatuba, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, 10<10>31<10>98. Cloudy. With /Attila rufus, Thamnophilus caerulescens, Stephanophorus diadematus, Basileuterus leucoblepharus .: 12684 >: