Brazilian name: choquinha-de-garganta-clara
Not only does this bird have a plain throat, the male, seen here in photos 1 and 3, also has two white wing-bars on its black wings, white tips to the tertials seen on either side of the back, and a white tip to its short tail. The female (photo 2) is olive-brown above with buff replacing the male's white on the wing-bars and below it is bright cinnamon-rufous with a paler throat.
Unlike most other Myrmotherula antwrens, the Plain-throated stays fairly close to the ground and is usually seen clinging sideways to vertical saplings.
It is found in humid, tropical forest in the Amazon Basin south of the River Amazon.
There are illustrations in Hilty & Brown, Plate 28; and in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 19.
Recordings are to be found on xeno-canto.
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