Black-cheeked Gnateater
conopophaga melanops
Conopophagidae · Gnateaters
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
12 cm. Easily to identify by its long flesh colored legs and stubby tail.
Male's upper head and wing coverts are bright orange rufous. Forehead, sides of head and lores black, post-ocular tuft white. Back brownish-grey. Throat and underbelly white, sides of belly gray. Wings and tail brownish-black the wing feathers with white tips.
Female is olive-brown above the back feathers fringed white. Post-ocular tuft white. Wing coverts olive-brown with buff terminal spots which clearly differentiate it from the female of Conopophaga lineata. Below, including the throat, rusty buff. Center of belly white.
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Male Disc 3 · 2006 -
Female Disc 3 · 2006
Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select Black-cheeked Gnateater at 16 localities.
- Barreiro Rico BRSB
- Boraceia BOSB
- Campos do Jordão CASB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Marica MRRB
- Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
- Parati PARB
- PE Jacupiranga PJSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Rio de Janeiro RIRB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
- 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.
The account, continued
Voice
: Call is a harsh and sharp repeated 'zzeek', harsher than the call of Conopophaga lineata. Song is an ascending series of short bell-like whistles.
Behavior
Undergrowth of humid rain forest. Close to or on the ground, usually hopping around in dense vegetation. Often reveals itself by its call.
Habitat and status
Local in primary and secondary rain forest. Locally common.
Distribution
A bird of the Atlantic rain forest. Encountered, e. g., at Jureia, PE Jacupiranga, near Ubatuba, and in Rio de Janeiro's Tijuca National Park. To 1000 meters (44).
Taxonomy notes
Can be found in Parco Estadual PE Jacupiranga close to the Caverna do Diabo entrance.
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
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Call. PE Jacupiranga, Caverna do Diabo, 11/7/95. Sunny, 25°C. Secondary/primary forest.
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Song and calls. Jureia-Peruibe, 10/12/99. Cloudy, 22°C. Secondary forest. With Thryothorus longirostris, Tinamus solitarius, Dysithamnus stictothorax.
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Call, song. Jureia-Peruibe, 10/13/99. Sunny, 20°C. Secondary forest.
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Calls, Ubatuba, 10/31/93. Forest. Cloudy, 20°C. With Platycichla flavipes, Todirostrum plumbeiceps, Saltator similis, Turdus rufiventris.
Recording files on the disc
- 16083.wav Call. PE Jacupiranga, Caverna do Diabo, 11/7/95. Sunny, 25°C. Secondary/primary forest.
- 15297.mp3 Song and calls. Jureia-Peruibe, 10/12/99. Cloudy, 22°C. Secondary forest. With Thryothorus longirostris, Tinamus solitarius, Dysithamnus stictothorax.
- 15222.wav Call, song. Jureia-Peruibe, 10/13/99. Sunny, 20°C. Secondary forest.
- 3190.wav Calls, Ubatuba, 10/31/93. Forest. Cloudy, 20°C. With Platycichla flavipes, Todirostrum plumbeiceps, Saltator similis, Turdus rufiventris.
More images
Jureia. Photograph by F. Müller. Disc 3 · 2006
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 both edited this account and truncated part of it at exactly 512 bytes (a 2011 mastering defect).
Truncated sections in the 2011 revision: description. The complete earlier text is shown beneath each truncated section.
Sections with genuine 2011 edits (vs the Disc 3 release): taxonomy_notes.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
12 cm. Easily to identify by its long flesh colored legs and stubby tail.
Male's upper head and wing coverts are bright orange rufous. Forehead, sides of head and lores black, post-ocular tuft white. Back brownish-grey. Throat and underbelly white, sides of belly gray. Wings and tail brownish-black the wing feathers with white tips.
Female is olive-brown above the back feathers fringed white. Post-ocular tuft white. Wing coverts olive-brown with buff terminal spots which clearly differentiate it from th
Disc 1 (2011) text ends here — truncated at exactly 512 bytes in the 2011 mastering (historical defect, kept as recovered).
Complete earlier text — Disc 3 · 2006 (98 bytes lost in 2011)
12 cm. Easily to identify by its long flesh colored legs and stubby tail.
Male's upper head and wing coverts are bright orange rufous. Forehead, sides of head and lores black, post-ocular tuft white. Back brownish-grey. Throat and underbelly white, sides of belly gray. Wings and tail brownish-black the wing feathers with white tips.
Female is olive-brown above the back feathers fringed white. Post-ocular tuft white. Wing coverts olive-brown with buff terminal spots which clearly differentiate it from the female of Conopophaga lineata. Below, including the throat, rusty buff. Center of belly white.
Shown for comparison from the Disc 3 · 2006; it does not repair or replace the Disc 1 · 2011 historical text above.
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
: Call is a harsh and sharp repeated 'zzeek', harsher than the call of Conopophaga lineata. Song is an ascending series of short bell-like whistles.
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Undergrowth of humid rain forest. Close to or on the ground, usually hopping around in dense vegetation. Often reveals itself by its call.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Local in primary and secondary rain forest. Locally common.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
A bird of the Atlantic rain forest. Encountered, e. g., at Jureia, PE Jacupiranga, near Ubatuba, and in Rio de Janeiro's Tijuca National Park. To 1000 meters (44).
Taxonomy notes Disc 1 · 2011
Can be found in PE Jacupiranga close to the Caverna do Diabo entrance.
Recordings and images first listed on Disc 1 · 2011
Male Disc 1 · 2011
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 | conopophaga melanops | Black-cheeked Gnateater | Conopophagidae |
| CLEMENTS | conopophaga melanops | Black-cheeked Gnateater | Conopophagidae |
| AOU_HM | conopophaga melanops | Black-cheeked Gnateater | Conopophagidae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0156
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0156
- Account number on the disc
- 156
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative