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occurrence of H. negreti, along with First record of Munchique other globally threatened Wood Henicorhina negreti such as Gold- ringed Tanager in dpto. Chocó, Colombia Bangsia aureocincta, Bicoloured Antvireo Dysithamnus occidentalis Henicorhina negreti, a Colombian and Fulvous- dotted Treerunner endemic recently described from Margarornis stellatus, all of which the Munchique massif, dpto. we observed during our two- day Cauca3, is considered Critically visit, make this area meritorious of Endangered1. In contrast, effective protection. Kroodsma & Brewer2 considered the species to be not globally Acknowledgements threatened, because of the even We thank Jürgen Beckers of more recent discovery of a Trogon Trips for organising our population 350 km to the north, at transport and logistics. HvO was the border between dptos. partly financed by the Dutch Fund Antioquia, Chocó and Risaralda2. for Nature Conservation Research The species inhabits various types (FONA), grant number S072.63. of stunted and very wet montane Special thanks to Thomas Donegan cloud forest on the Pacific slope of for greatly improving the the West Andes of Colombia at manuscript. elevations of 2,250–2,640 m3. We recently found H. negreti at a References new locality (04º44’N 76º17’W; 1. BirdLife International (2008) c.2,140 m) on the Pacific slope of Species factsheet: the West Andes of Colombia, in Henicorhina negreti. dpto. Chocó, near the town of El www.birdlife.org (accessed on Cairo, in dpto. Valle de Cauca. To 11 June 2008). our knowledge, this is the first 2. Kroodsma. D. E. & Brewer, D. record for dpto. Chocó. On 14 (2005) Family Troglodytidae February 2008 we made a sound- (). In: del Hoyo, J., recording of one individual, which Elliott, A. & Christie, D. A. is deposited at www. xeno-canto.org (eds.) Handbook of the (XC 18307) and up to four others of the world, 10. Barcelona: were heard nearby. Identification Lynx Edicions. was based on the characteristic 3. Salaman, P., Coopmans, P., song (cf. Salaman et al.3), as the Donegan, T. M., Mulligan, M., morphological characters that Cortés, A., Hilty, S. L. & separate H. negreti from H.l. Ortega, L. A. (2003) A new brunneiceps3 could not be discerned species of wood- wen due to the poor light conditions. (Troglodytidae: Henicorhina) Habitat degradation is ongoing from the Western Andes of in the municipality of El Cairo, Colombia. Orn. Colombiana principally through agricultural 1: 4–21. expansion (especially clearance for cattle pastures). Local people plan Herman van Oosten to establish such pastures at the Bargerveen Foundation / Dept. of pass south- west of the area where Ecology, Radboud we found H. negreti and are University, Nijmegen; preparing to invade surrounding PO Box 9010, NL-6500 GL areas (OC pers. obs.). Furthermore, Nijmegen, Netherlands. E- mail: slash-and- burn agriculture and [email protected]. felling of montane forest for timber and charcoal production are still Oswaldo Cortes common (OC pers. obs.). Below Fundación Ecodiversidad, Carrera 1,500 m, it was obvious that 87a, 57–43 Sur, Bogotá, Colombia. substantial areas of forest had E- mail: [email protected]. been converted to agricultural use, but above this elevation forest Received 18 August 2008; final cover is mainly intact and pristine, revision accepted 20 November though undoubtedly threatened for 2008 (published online 4 March the reasons elucidated. The 2009)

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