Streak-capped Spinetail
Cranioleuca hellmayri (Bangs, 1907)
Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
Streak-capped Spinetail, Cranioleuca hellmayri, is a bird of the Furnariidae family that breeds in northern Colombia, especially the isolated Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It is also known from a single Venezuelan specimen from the Serranía del Perijá. It lives in montane evergreen forest, including both primary and secondary growth, and in Colombia occurs from 1,200 to 3,000 m. The species is monotypic. Adults show the same plumage in both sexes, with a narrow pale eyebrow, a reddish chestnut crown marked with dark streaks, and a graduated tail of the same chestnut tone.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: n Colombia
