Chestnut-crowned gnateater

(Conopophaga castaneiceps)

Description

It measures between 13 and 13.5 cm in length.The males have dark plumage,with ferruginous rufa,white tufts in the ears and the women are brown in the back,they have shorter the white tufts of the ears,the reddish head and the clear inferior parts.The male of the subspecies C.c.chapmani,has a gray throat and chest.The male of the subspecies C.c.brunneinucha,has a blackish throat and dark crown

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Conopophagidae
Genus:Conopophaga
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