Lesser Woodcreeper

17 cm. Smaller than /Lepidocolaptes squamatus . Head is olive with buff streaks and an indistinct buff superciliary. Above rich olive-brown with the buff streaks extending onto the shoulders and back /Lepidocolaptes squamatus is unstreaked above . Wings and tail rufous unmarked. Throat buff. The side of neck brown with buff streaks. Breast and belly light olive with much less distinct buff streaks. Quite vocal. Call is a sequence of single "wit-wit-wit...." notes cut 2 . Song a line of "tchittchittchit...." becoming faster then slower, sometimes building a trill which is then followed by some stuttered sequences of "tchitt.." ^44 . Scales trees mostly in the subcanopy. A common forest species, . The most common woodcreeper in southeast Brazil. More often at low altitude in humid mature secondary and primary forest and borders. Usually at lower altitudes up to 1300 meters than /Lepidocolaptes squamatus . Throughout. 9127 Call. Serra da Mantiqueira, Tres Picos trail, Itatiaia NP, 11<10>5<10>93. Cloudy, 20<91>C. Secondary forest: 11143 Song. Iguape, 11<10>7<10>95. Rainy, clouds, 20<91>C. Secondary<10>primary forest.: 3940 Calls. Serra das Rosas near Franca, 11<10>7<10>98. Rain in the morning, then sunny, 27<91>C. Dry secondary forest. With /Drymophila ferruginea .: 12518 Song. 10<10>11<10>99 Jureia-Peruibe. Sunny, 20<91>C. Primary forest.: 10122 Song. Jureia-Peruibe, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 20<91>C. Forest.: 6824 Calls. 10<10>21<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, near Hotel do Ype. Clear, 25<91>C. Forest. With /Ramphastos dicolorus, Pyriglena leucoptera .: 11015 >: