Oven-bird

Oven-bird, a genus (Furnarius) and sub-family (Furnariinae) of Passerine birds, family Dendrocaptidae. The name is given because some of the species build nests resembling an oven or beehive. The genus, which consists of nine species, is exclusively South American, ranging from Guiana and Ecuador to La Plata. The habits of these birds have been described chiefly by Mr Edward Bartlett, and by Darwin in his Voyage of the Beagle. The name oven-bird is also applied, for a similar reason, to the willow-wren (Phylloscopus trochilus).