About Hylopezus perspicillatus (Lawrence, 1861)
The streak-chested antpitta, Hylopezus perspicillatus (Lawrence, 1861), is 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 40 to 54 g (1.4 to 1.9 oz). Both sexes share identical plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies H. p. perspicillatus have a yellow loral patch and a wide yellow ring around the eye. Their ear coverts are yellow with a black line below them, and their crown and nape are gray. Their upperparts are brown with gray feather bases, and the upper back has some yellowish streaks; the tail is brown. Their flight feathers range from brown to blackish, with yellow bases and an orangish to yellow band on the underside. The wing coverts are brown, with yellow tips on the median and lesser coverts. The throat is buffy to white, and the underparts are white to buffy, marked with black streaks across the breast and along the sides and flanks. Other subspecies of the streak-chested antpitta differ from the nominate subspecies and each other in the following ways: H. p. intermedius has unstreaked buffy or tawny buff flanks and undertail coverts; H. p. lizanoi has little or no streaking on the back; H. p. periophthalmicus has a deeper ochraceous loral spot and eyering than the nominate, an olive blackish crown, and a slightly more brownish olive back; H. p. pallidior is overall paler than the nominate with a duller gray crown. All subspecies have a dark brown iris, a slate gray maxilla, a pale gray to pink mandible, and pale gray legs and feet. Subspecies of the streak-chested antpitta are distributed as follows: H. p. intermedius is found on the Caribbean slope from eastern Honduras south through Nicaragua and Costa Rica into Panama as far as Bocas del Toro Province; H. p. lizanoi occurs on the Pacific slope of southern Costa Rica and formerly extended into western Panama's Chiriquí Province; H. p. perspicillatus ranges from Veraguas Province in western Panama east into Colombia's Chocó Department; H. p. periophthalmicus lives on the Pacific slope from Chocó Department south into northwestern Ecuador's Esmeraldas Province; H. p. pallidior inhabits Colombia in the valleys of the upper Sinú, lower Cauca, and middle Magdalena rivers. The streak-chested antpitta lives in lowland evergreen forest in the tropical and lower subtropical zones. It occurs at elevations up to a maximum of 1,250 m (4,100 ft), with regional maximum elevations of 200 m (660 ft) in Honduras, 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in Costa Rica and Colombia, and 800 m (2,600 ft) in Ecuador.
