The slaty-winged foliage-gleaner (''Philydor fuscipenne'') is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, Ecuador, and Panama.

Taxonomy and systematics

The slaty-winged foliage-gleaner has a complicated taxonomic history. Since about 1990 it has been assigned two subspecies, the nominate ''P. f. fuscipenne'' ( Salvin, 1866) and ''P. f. erythronotum'' ( Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1873). For a time ''P. f. erythronotum'' was treated as a separate species. Later, ''P. f. fuscipenne'' was treated as subspecies of the

rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner The rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner (''Philydor erythrocercum'') is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Suri ...

(''P. erythrocercum'').Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 31 May 2023. A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithological Society. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm retrieved May 31, 2023Remsen, Jr., J. V. (2020). Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner (''Philydor fuscipenne''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.swfgle.01 retrieved August 27, 2023 The spellings of what are now ''fuscipenne'' and ''erythronutum'' have also changed from ending in the masculine "us" with the recognition that ''Pyilydor'' is neuter. ''P. f. erythronotum'' has two widely separated populations (see the Distribution section); that in Ecuador "probably represents an undescribed taxon".

Description

The slaty-winged foliage-gleaner is about long and weighs . Male and female plumages are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale

rufescent Rufous () is a color that may be described as reddish-brown or brownish-red, as of rust or oxidised iron. The first recorded use of ''rufous'' as a color name in English was in 1782. However, the color is also recorded earlier in 1527 as a dia ...

ochre

supercilium The supercilium is a plumage feature found on the heads of some bird species. It is a stripe which runs from the base of the bird's beak above its eye, finishing somewhere towards the rear of the bird's head.Dunn and Alderfer (2006), p. 10 Also ...

, a dark brownish band behind the eye,

fuscous {{Short pages monitor. The Ecuadoran population is "considered vulnerable because of extensive destruction of lowland forests".

References

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