Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner

6.7 . Bill longer than in /philydor lichtensteini . Crown dark grayish with the whole front and superciliary which joins the frontal band markedly ochraceous-buff. Lores and streak through eye dark grayish-brown. Above cinnamon-olivaceous-brown, the back more ochraceous. Below ochraceous-orange. Wings chestnut red, the axillaries and underwing coverts ochraceous-orange. Tail dark cinnamon reddish-brown, darker on the central rectrices. a sequence of sharp high "kik" sounds sometimes ascending. Also single calls sounding like "tchree". In the canopy and subcanopy of the forest, forages near the tip of branches inspecting foliage often climbing around upside-down in tit-like manner. The nest is apparently some times in a tree cavity or at the end of a burrow in a bank of earth ^44, ^41 . Relatively common in most humid primary and secondary rain forests and borders. Also inland in dryer habitat. In pairs and in mixed flocks. Throughout the area, up to 1500 meters. 15835 Call. Fazenda Intervales, 11<10>30<10>97. Sunny, 27<91>C. With /Myiodynastes maculatus dawnsong, /Baryphthengus ruficapillus, Lipaugus lanioides .: 14092 Call. Serra das Rosas, near Franca, 11<10>8<10>98. Sunny, 25<91>C. Dry secondary forest. With /Herpsilochmus atricapillus, Trogon viridis .: 14224 Call. Serra das Rosas near Franca, 11<10>7<10>98. Rain in the morning, then sunny, 27<91>C. Secondary forest.: 14093 Call. 10<10>22<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, near Hotel do Ype. Clear, 25<91>C. Primary forest.: 9339 Call. 10<10>22<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, Tres Picos Trail. Clear, 25<91>C. Primary forest.: 2320 Call. 10<10>26<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, Tres Picos Trail. Clear, 25<91>C. Forest. With /Attila phoenicurus .: 3471 >: