Cotinga 17

Taxonom ic Round-up

A new species of piha from the flycatcher (Tyrannidae: ruficeps by the río Marañón, and Colombian Andes Myiopagis) from eastern can be distinguished from the Andrés Cuervo and colleagues Ecuador and eastern Peru. latter form by virtue of its have discovered a new species of Wilson Bull. 112: 305–312. different song, facial pattern and piha in the Cordillera Central of belly coloration. Colombia. Lipaugus weberi, the A new tyrannulet from the • Johnson, N. K. & Jones, R. E. Chestnut-capped Piha, is closely white-sand forests of Peru (2001) A new species of tody- related to Dusky Piha L. José Alonso and Bret Whitney tyrant (Tyrannidae: fuscocinereus, a much more have described a new Zimmerius Poecilotriccus) from northern widespread Andean species. It is, tyrannulet from poorly drained Peru. Auk 118: 334–341. however, much smaller with a white-sand forest in the vicinity chestnut-brown crown, yellow of Iquitos, dpto. Loreto, Peru. Geographic variation in Suiriri orbital ring, two modified Zimmerius villarejoi, the Mishana Flycatcher primaries in the male, and unique Tyrannulet, is closely related to Floyd Hayes has recently vocalisations. The new species is the syntopic Slender-footed analysed geographic variation restricted to a very narrow belt of Tyrannulet Z. gracilipes, but within the three distinct taxa super-humid premontane forest, a differs in its concolorous described among the Suiriri habitat now highly fragmented upperparts, lack of whitish Flycatcher complex, namely within its range. feathering in the superciliary, Suiriri suiriri suiriri (of the • Cuervo, A. M., Salaman, P. G. loral and frontal regions, and by Chaco/Pampas), S. s. affinis (in the W., Donegan, T. M. & Ochoa, J. its distinctly pinkish (rather than Cerrado and southern Amazonia) M. (2001) A new species of piha blackish) lower mandible. Earliest and S. s. bahiae (of the Caatinga). (Cotingidae: Lipaugus) from indications are that the new A leapfrog pattern is evident, with the Cordillera Central of species may prove to be endemic the nominate suiriri and bahiae Colombia. Ibis 143: 353–368. to this microhábitat in a most closely resembling one geographically restricted area, another, and it appears that A new M yiopagis from though the authors suggest ancestral suiriri split into three eastern Peru and eastern searching for it in the Tarapoto– isolated populations of which Ecuador Moyobamba region of Peru, and affinis differentiated most rapidly. Paul Coopmans and Neils Krabbe even perhaps in eastern Ecuador Following secondary contact, have described a new elaenia from and Colombia. affinis freely hybridised with eastern slope submontane Andean • Alonso, J. A. & Whitney, B. M. nominate suiriri, while the forests of Ecuador and Peru, in (2001) A new tyrannulet (Aves: intermediate size and increased the vicinity of Volcán Sumaco in Tyrannidae) from the white plumage variability of bahiae the north to dpto. Ayacucho in the sand forests of northern resemble those of suiriri × affinis south, and within the drainage of Amazonian Peru. Wilson Bull. hybrids. For now, the possibility the río Apurímac. Myiopagis 113: 1–9. that bahiae is not a hybrid cannot olallai, the , is be wholly discredited. Similarly perhaps most closely related to A new Poecilotriccus from disjunct patterns can be observed M. caniceps of lower northern Peru among several sister taxa elevations, and M. Previously depicted in these inhabiting the Chaco/Caatinga gaimardii, with which it is pages (see Cotinga 12: 25), Ned biomes, without intervening in syntopic. The new species Johnson and Robert Jones have the Cerrado, implying that a possesses distinctive recently described the shared historical process of vocalisations, as well as some Poecilotriccus first collected in vicariance is involved. differentiating plumage features, 1970. The new species, Lulu’s • Hayes, F. E. (2001) Geographic but it has only been located at the Tody-Tyrant Poecilotriccus luluae, variation, hybridization, and edge of very humid primary occurs in mid-elevation forests of the leapfrog pattern of submontane forest, a habitat that the Cordillera de Colán and evolution in the Suiriri within its range is under severe adjacent eastern mountains in the Flycatcher (Suiriri suiriri) pressure from colonists. north-east Peruvian Andes. It is complex. Auk 118: 457–471. • Coopmans, P. & Krabbe, N. separated from the allopatric (2000) A new species of Rufous-crowned Tody-tyrant P.

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Geographic variation in that latrans, subcinereus and New subspecies of Velvet- Boissonneaua intermedius be collectively ranked browed Brilliant The German team, headed by as a species S. latrans (Blackish Velvet-browed Brilliant Heliodoxa Karl Schuchmann, continue their Tapaculo), with the caveat that xanthogonys, which has tradition­ prolific work on hummingbirds there may be more than one ally been viewed as monotypic, is with an analysis of the biogeogra­ species involved, distinct from S. endemic to the Pantepui of phy and geographic variation unicolor (Unicolored Tapaculo). S. northern South America. In within the genus Boissonneaua, parvirostris had already been reviewing the biogeography of the which comprises three species, B. diagnosed as a separate species species, André Weller and Swen flavescens, the Buff-tailed (Krabbe & Schulenberg 1997). Renner recently discovered Coronet, B. matthewsii, the • Coopmans, P., Krabbe, N. & biometric and coloration evidence Chestnut-breasted Coronet and B. Schulenberg, T. S. (2000) Vocal that suggest that those on jardini, the Velvet-purple evidence of species rank for the Serranía de la Neblina and Coronet. The three are rather nominate Unicolored Tapaculo Sierra Imeri, in southern poorly differentiated morphologi­ Scytalopus unicolor. Bull. Brit. Amazonas, Venezuela and cally and are closely related to the Orn. Club. 121: 208–213. straddling the border with Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia Roraima, Brazil, warrant puffleg genera. B. flavescens and More on Thamnophilus punctatus subspecific recognition. The new B. matthewsii are clearly very Following on from their paper in taxon is named H. x. willardi in closely related and the authors Orn. Monogr. 48 examining honour of the collector of the type- suppose that the centre of origin species limits within the series, David Willard. The authors for the genus to lie on the eastern Thamnophilus punctatus complex suggest that H. xanthogonys Andean slope. Subsequent trans- (see Cotinga 9: 14), the Islers and probably originated from Andean invasion and isolation co-workers have returned to the descendants in the north-east events are presumably responsi­ subject with the benefit of new Andes that subsequently invaded ble for the separation ofjardini vocalisation data. The latter the Pantepui tablelands. and the subspecies tinochlora of suggest that the forms leucogaster • Weller, A.-A. & Renner, S. C. flavescens. (extreme southern Ecuador and (2001) A new subspecies of • Schuchmann, K. L., Weller, A.- northern Peru) and huallagae Heliodoxa xanthogonys (Aves: A. & Heynen, I. (2001) (north-east Peru) are distinct from Trochilidae) from the southern Biogeography and geographic most taxa within the complex, but Pantepui highlands, with variation of the Andean are insufficiently differentiated biogeographical and taxonomic hummingbird taxon from each other, or nominate notes. Ararajuba 9: 1–5. Boissonneaua Reichenbach, punctatus, to warrant more than 1854 (Aves: Trochilidae). Orn. subspecies status within the More on Bahia Spinetail Neotrop. 12: 93–108. latter. Both leucogaster and Following an examination of the huallagae are potentially six syntypes of Synallaxis cinerea Unicolored Tapaculo revisited threatened by increasing Wied, 1831, it has been deduced Paul Coopmans, Niels Krabbe and agricultural development within that three of them and Bahia Thomas Schulenberg have their apparently tiny ranges. Spinetail S. whitneyi represent analysed the vocalisations of the • Isler, M. L., Isler, P. R., Whitney, the same taxon. The latter name taxa formerly comprising B. M. & Walker, B. (2001) is therefore considered a synonym Scytalopus unicolor (Zimmer Species limits in antbirds: of S. cinerea, which is the name 1939): unicolor, latrans, Thamnophilus punctatus applicable to the Bahia Spinetail. subcinereus, intermedius and complex continued. Condor 103: • Whitney, B. M. & Pacheco, J. F. parvirostris and have concluded 278–286. (2001) Synallaxis whitneyi Pacheco and Gonzaga, 1995 is a synonym of Synallaxis cinerea Wied, 1831. Nattereria 2: 34–35.

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