Plain Antvireo

11 cm. Male"s upper parts are grayish olive with an blackish mask. Wings olive-black with two narrow white wing bands. Throat whitish. Below whitish-gray, the belly whitish.<N Female"s crown and wings are rufous-brown. Auriculars dusky-brown. Otherwise olive-brown above. Below a lighter gray-olive, the belly yellow. Song a sequence of notes starting of very slowly and accelerating increasingly towards the end "tuep tuep tuep tuep tuep tu tu tutututu". Cut 1 demonstrates first the song of /Dysithamnus stictothorax , which starts out much faster, followed by the song of this species. Slowly moves about, usually in pairs, in low scrub and undergrowth of forest. A common antvireo of humid forest. Frequently encountered in lower stratum of humid primary and secondary forest and borders. Sea level to about 1000 meters. Throughout. Especially common near<8E>Ubatuba<8E>and<8E>Parati<8E>. Occurs further inland, e. g. at<8E>Ibitipoca<8E>and Reserva Rio Do<C8>e, Minas Gerais where /Dysithamnus stictothorax is not found. 2209 Song. Picinguaba, east of Ubatuba, 11<10>20<10>98. Cloudy, 20<91>C. Secondary forest. With /Dysithamnus stictothorax, Drymophila ferruginea, Basileuterus rivularis song . /Dysithamnus stictothorax and /Dysithamnus mentalis are foraging in the same flock and the songs of the two species can be easily differentiated.: 9599 Calls. Jureia-Peruibe, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 20<91>C. Forest.: 3832 Song. Cananeia, 10<10>12<10>99. Cloudy, 20<91>C. Forest. With /Pionus maximiliani, Crypturellus noctivagus .: 3191 Song. Cananeia, 10<10>12<10>99. Cloudy, 20<91>C. Forest. With /Turdus rufiventris, Trogon viridis, Crypturellus noctivagus .: 5261 Song. Cornell Cat 81459. With /Momotus momota, Corythopsis delalandi , 7<10>7<10>87, Ilha do Bananal, Goias. Recording by P. K. Donahue.: 15188 Calls. Cornell Cat 19298. Santo Cristo, Rio Grande do Sul, 1<10>22<10>73. With /Synallaxis ruficapilla . Recording by W. Belton.: 8215 >. Male: 7485 >. Female: