About Cantorchilus thoracicus (Salvin, 1865)
The stripe-breasted wren, Cantorchilus thoracicus (Salvin, 1865), measures 11.5 to 12.5 cm (4.5 to 4.9 in) in length, with a mean weight of 17.6 g (0.62 oz). Adult individuals have a gray-brown crown, dark umber shoulders, back, and rump, and a dull blackish tail marked with buffy bars. Their face and the sides of their neck have white streaks over a blackish base. Their throat and chest feature lengthwise black, white, and gray streaks that end abruptly at the plain olive-brown lower belly. Juveniles have more russet upperparts than adults, and their throat and chest have grayish brown, white, and dusky stripes. This wren is distributed along the Caribbean slope of Middle America, ranging from eastern Honduras south through northeastern Nicaragua and eastern Costa Rica into Panama, reaching almost to the Canal Zone. It inhabits thick vegetation along woodland edges, in clearings, and alongside streams; in Costa Rica, it can also be found in cacao and shade coffee plantations. It occurs at elevations from sea level up to 1,100 m (3,600 ft).
