Slaty Bristlefront

18 cm. Both sexes have stiff bristle-like, erect plumes on the sides of the forehead. Iris dark brown. <NMale is mostly bluish slate black with the lower back, rump and sides of the belly dark brown. <N The female is brown above. Below cinnamon rufous, the sides of the belly brown. Song is a long sequence of melodical whistles about 4 per second, starting loud and high in pitch and becoming softer and lower in pitch, often going on for many seconds. Call is a repeated metallic "tick". Walks rail-like on the ground, usually staying well hidden in the vegetation. In humid lowland primary and secondary rain forest, humid dense scrub and old plantations. Quite common in the forests of the coastal area, but also found further inland, e. g. in the Serra Mantiqueira. Throughout. Sea level to 1300 meters in the<8E>Serra Mantiqueira<8E>. 13583 Song after playback. Rio Escuro near Ubatuba. Overgrown banana plantation, scrub. Some clouds, humid, 30<91>C. 11<10>11<10>93: 6712 Calls after playback. 11<10>11<10>93, Rio Escuro near Ubatuba. Second growth, scrub. Some clouds, humid, 30<91>C.: 8617 Calls. Ubatuba, 10<10>28<10>98, secondary dense rain forest, cloudy, 27<91>C: 12366 Song, Rio Escuro near Ubatuba. 11<10>11<10>93. Secondary forest. With /Dysithamnus stictothorax, Automolus leucophthalmus .: 15634 Song. Rio Escuro, near Ubatuba, 11<10>22<10>98. Sunny, 20<91>C. Secondary forest. With /Myiodynastes maculatus, Vireo olivaceus, Thraupis cyanoptera .: 10626 Call and song. Rio Escuro, near Ubatuba, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 27<91>C. Secondary forest. With /Vireo olivaceus, Hemitriccus furcatus .: 10850 >: