Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
R.K. Selander,
1954
C. chiapensis
5.4 mi. along road from Tonalá to Arriaga (=NW)
March 26 trees which had rather recently been chopped down.
Mexicans were in the process of clearing a field
and had chopped down most of the larger trees.
After a time the chiapensis flew into a large tree
near the house. At the same time as we were
watching chiapensis, two humilis were foraging
in the upper and middle branches of one large
ad several small trees just above the other
species. The call note of humilis is a very
nasal-hollow-type "Chee-"chee-"chea." I followed
on bird and heard this call repeatedly as I shared
the bird -- it apparently was alarmed. There
may have been two family groups or pairs
reps in the area but we collected all 4 birds (humilis)
within a short distance of one another. Later we
noted alone humilis foraging in the upper
branches of a large tree. It flew down into
a dense clump of acacia and vines where I
collected it after following it through the
dense acacia stand. Many acacias, some of
very large size, in this area, and few very
tall trees. A man at the farm-house said that
the humilis was is rare -- but we did not find
it so. He said that the worms have eggs in May
or June. In this same area we took another Thryothorus
plourosictus - this individual was noted foraging a
few inches above the ground in a dense bush.