Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner

The Chiriqui foliage-gleaner is 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long and weighs 30 to 46 g (1.1 to 1.6 oz). It is a fairly large member of its genus and has a heavy bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a primarily dark brownish face with a bold buff eyering, faint reddish streaks on the ear coverts, and a slightly buffy malar area. Their crown and nape are dark brown with a faint blackish brown scallop pattern. Their back and rump are rich dark brown that blends to dark chestnut uppertail coverts. Their wing coverts are rich dark brown and their flight feathers slightly paler and more rufescent. Their tail is dark chestnut. Their throat is ochraceous-buff, their breast is streaked with medium brown and ochraceous buff that fades in its lower part, and their belly is brown. Their flanks are a darker and more rufescent brown and their undertail coverts bright rufous. Their iris is brown to dark brown, their maxilla blackish horn to horn-brown, their mandible horn to gray, and their legs and feet olive, greenish brown, or greenish gray.

The Chiriqui foliage-gleaner is found on the Pacific slope from Costa Rica south of the dry northwest into western Panama as far as Veraguas Province. It inhabits tropical evergreen forest, mature secondary forest, and coffee plantations from sea level to 1,400 m (4,600 ft).

The Chiriqui foliage-gleaner feeds mostly on a variety of insects, spiders, and vertebrates like small lizards. It forages singly or in pairs and often (perhaps usually) joins mixed-species feeding flocks. It forages from the forest's dense undergrowth to its lower mid-storey, acrobatically gleaning and pulling prey from epiphytes, debris, and especially from clumps of dead leaves as it hops along branches and vines. It has also been observed foraging on the ground by flipping aside leaf litter.