Grey-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) [XC335419]
by Richard E. Webster from Campamento El Triunfo, Chiapas, Mexico (call, song)
Grey-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) [XC578333]
by Jerome Fischer from Ibagu\u00e9, Tolima, Colombia (song)
Subspecies
Has been thought to form a superspecies with White-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), but geographical and altitudinal overlap too extensive to justify such treatment. Possibly involves more than one species. Subspecies bangsi and anachoreta are separated altitudinally in Santa Marta massif (northern Colombia), and brunneiceps appears to have different song type from neighbouring subspecies. Subspecies composita perhaps not distinguishable from castanea.
The following 18 subspecies are recognised:
mexicana Nelson, 1897 - Eastern Mexico (south-eastern San Luis Potosí south to northern Oaxaca).
minuscula Phillips, AR, 1966 - Western Mexico (south-western Jalisco and Michoacán east to western México).
festiva Nelson, 1903 - South-western Mexico from Michoacán south to Guerrero.
capitalis Nelson, 1897 - Southern Mexico (Veracruz and Puebla south to Oaxaca) and western Guatemala.
castanea Ridgway, 1903 - Atlantic slope of Guatemala.
composita Griscom, 1932 - Northern El Salvador, south-central highlands of Honduras and adjacent north-western Nicaragua.
collina Bangs, 1902 - Central Costa Rica south to eastern Panama.
bangsi Ridgway, 1903 - Santa Marta Mts (below 2000 m), in northern Colombia.
anachoreta Bangs, 1899 - Upper levels of Santa Marta (2000-4000 m). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Hermit Wood-Wren (Henicorhina anachoreta).
sanluisensis Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1959 - Sierra de San Luis, in central Falcón (north-western Venezuela).
venezuelensis Hellmayr, 1903 - Northern Andes and coastal mountains of Venezuela (Lara, Yaracuy, and Carabobo east to Miranda).
meridana Todd, 1932 - Venezuelan Andes (Trujillo south to northern Táchira).
tamae Zimmer, JT & Phelps, 1944 - Eastern Andes of south-western Venezuela (south-western Táchira) and eastern slope in Colombia.
brunneiceps Chapman, 1914 - Western Colombia and north-western Ecuador.
leucophrys (Tschudi, 1844) - Subtropical zone in Colombia (eastern slope of western Andes east to western slope of eastern cordillera), Ecuador (except north-western and south-west) and Peru.
hilaris von Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884 - Subtropical zone of south-western Ecuador.
boliviana Todd, 1932 - Western Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet