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Taxonomic revision of the Greater The Green-throated Antillean Pewee complex of southern A study of taped vocalisations, mensural A reassessment of the Green-throated Hum­ data, and close up photographs has shown mingbird viridifrons complex has that the Jamaican, Hispaniolan and - shown that there are three distinct subspe­ Bahamian populations of Greater Antillean cies. An analysis by Steve Howell, describes Pewee Contopus caribaeus should be treated a new A. v. rowleyi from the as separate . The Jamaican species interior of Oaxaca in the upper reaches of has been named C. pallidus whilst those on the Río Grande drainage. The other subspe­ are now C. hispaniolensis. cies involved are: A. v. viridifrons with two Source: Wilson Bull. [1993] 105: 217-227. disjunct populations in Guerrero and west­ ern Oaxaca, and eastern Oaxaca and west­ A new subspecies of Steller’s from ern Chiapas; and Amazilia (viridifrons) M exico. wagneri, the “Cinnamon-sided” Humming­ Populations of Steller’s Jay from southern Oaxaca and which may stelleri are divided into two forms: the black-, be specifically distinct. crested morph from Alaska to northern Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club [1993] Mexico as far south as Jalisco, with one 113: 179–187. population (azteca) in central Mexico; and the blue-crested populations (surrounding N ew found in Mexico C. s. azteca) from the mountains of southern A new species of , the White-fronted San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato and Michoacán, Swift Cypseloides storeri has been described south to Honduras and Nicaragua. A taxo­ from four specimens obtained in Michoacán nomic revision of the blue-crested group has (Tacámbaro) and Guerrero (Sierra de Atoyac) led to the description of a new subspecies in south-west Mexico at elevations of 1,500– phillipsi from San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato 2,500 m. Three of the specimens were and Hidalgo, thus bringing the total to eight found in an existing collection and had been for the blue-crested group. identified as Black Swift C. niger. Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club [1993] Cypseloides storeri is distinguished from 113: 34–41. the latter and Sooty Swift C. fumigatus by the combination of relatively short wings and long tarsi and from Chestnut-collared

12 1 Neotropical News Swift C. rutilis by absence of rusty-brown New subspecies and range extension of colouration in the male and overall larger the Slender-billed Miner size. In morphology, it is similar to White- Niels Krabbe reports finding Slender-billed chinned Swift C. cryptus though the head Miner Geositta tenuirostris on the slopes of shape differs, and its plumage has a broad Volcán Iliniza in the northern half of Ecua­ white frosting on the forehead, lores and dor, almost 1,000 km north of the previ­ chin, and whitish postorbital feathers. ously known range of the species (and ge­ Source: Wilson Bull. [1992] 104: 55–62. nus). were observed and two speci­ [EDS.] There is a suggestion that this form mens collected from the western side of may be but a race of C. cryptus (Sibley and Planadas de Guintza in August 1990 at Monroe [1993] A supplement to distribution elevations ranging from 3,350–3,500 m. The and of birds of the world. New new subspecies has been named G. t. Haven: Yale University Press) kalimayae. Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club [1992] Taxonomic status of hum ­ 112: 166–169. mingbirds in Mexico After examination of study skins of hun­ The Argus Bare-eye: a dreds of Chlorostilbon , Steve Questions over the species status of the Howell has recommended that the Golden- Argus Bare-eye “Phlegopsis barringeri” have crowned Emerald C. auriceps of western finally been resolved. Gary Graves, in a Mexico and the Cozumel Emerald C. recent analysis of the unique specimen col­ forticatus, endemic to Isla Cozumel should lected in Nariño, , has formally be reinstated as a full species. Both taxa had suggested that this bird is in fact a hybrid been treated as subspecies of the Fork­ between the Black-spotted Bare-eye P. tailed Emerald C. canivetti in recent litera­ nigromaculata and Red-winged Bare-eye P. ture. Further work may also show that C. c. erythroptera, which overlap broadly in west­ osberti (Guatemala to Honduras) is also ern Amazonia. This represents the first distinct. case of hybridity in the New World Source: Euphonia [1993] 2: 25–37. suboscines. [EDS.] Gary Stiles (pers. comm.) is revising Source: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. [1992] the taxonomic status of the Chlorostilbon 105: 834–840. complex, and in a paper soon to be submit­ ted for publication, is proposing two new A new described from 1909 species in north-western . trade skin The Bogotá Sunangel Heliangelus zusii has Species status of the Mexican Purplish- been described by Gary Graves from a unique backed Quail-Dove specimen purchased in Bogotá in 1909. This The Purplish-backed Quail-Dove Geotrygon species, which could be extinct, is interme­ lawrencii is known from disjunct popula­ diate in plumage between ungorgeted H. tions in southern Veracruz, Mexico, and regalis and typical gorgeted members of the and eastern . Having . Whilst originally believed to be a compared specimens from the two popula­ hybrid, Alexander Wetmore recognised that tions, A. Townsend Peterson has proposed it was probably a good species in 1947, that the subspecies carrikeri from Los though as recently as 1991 it was judged Tuxtlas in southern Veracruz be considered (see Hinkelmann et al. in Bull. Brit. Orn. a full species G. carrikeri. No vernacular Club 111: 190–199) to be a hybrid between name is suggested for the “Veracruz” Quail- the Long-tailed Sylph kingi Dove, and no analysis of vocalizations is and the Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania presented, although a number of furcata. Graves speculates that H. zusii differentiating characters are described. was or is an inhabitant of cloud- in the Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club [1993] East of Colombia. 113: 166–168. Source: Auk [1993] 110: 1–8.

13 COTINGA 1 Neotropical News Cundinamarca , a new species T hree Chamaeza antthrushes in east­ from Colombia ern : a complex complex In 1989 Peter Kaestner heard and observed Studies of the vocalisations, morphology an unknown species of antpitta along a and plumage of Chamaeza antthrushes in newly opened road from Monterredondo to eastern Brazil by Edwin Willis have shown El Calvario in the valley of the Río Guaitiqui that there are three, not two, sibling spe­ in the Department of Meta. The bird was cies. The previously unrecognised , subsequently collected by Kaestner and Gary C. meruloides, occurs in the eastern Brazil­ Stiles in May 1990 and found to be a new ian midmontane zone between lower species that is most closely related to the m ontane C. campanisona and upper Santa Marta Antpitta bangsi. montane C. ruficauda. Willis also tenta­ Stiles has named the new bird the tively recognises the isolated forms of C. Cundinamarca Antpitta Grallaria kaestneri. ruficauda of and Colombia as a It is an inhabitant of primary and secondary separate species, C. turdina. cloud-forest at c.1,800–2,300 m in the upper Source: Condor [1992] 94: 110–116. subtropical zone of the eastern slope of the East Andes. Source: Wilson Bull. [1992] 104: 389–399. A new subspecies of Ruddy-tailed Fly­ catcher from Amazonia, Brazil The Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Myiobius Taxonomic status of Nyctiphrynus (Terenotriccus) erythrurus is a polytypic ocellatus in the Chocó species with a wide range in the Neotropics Recent studies of vocalisations of Ocellated from southern Mexico to and Brazil. Poorwills Nyctiphrynus ocellatus have Recent studies have shown that the popula­ shown that the calls of the nominate form tion from the middle Rio Purús, Amazonas, are so different to those of the Chocó subspe­ Brazil, represents a new subspecies cies that the latter should be considered as purusianus which is encircled by two other a separate species, Chocó Poorwill N. subspecies M. e. brunneifrons and M. e. rosenbergi. Plumage differences between amazonas, although it is by no means inter­ the two taxa are also pronounced. N. mediate between the two. rosenbergi and N. ocellatus are allopatric, Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club [1993] with the former restricted to the Chocó 113: 21–23. faunal region from Alto del Buey, Baudó Mountains, Colombia, south to Esmeraldas in extreme north-west , where it is known from from sea level to c.900 m. Source: Condor [1992] 94: 984–987. Neotropical News and Taxo­ nomic Round-up were com­ Restinga Tyrannulet, a new flycatcher piled by Frank Lambert and from south-eastern Brazil David C. Wege. Edwin O. Willis and Yoshika Oniki have described a new species of small flycatcher Phylloscartes kronei that they discovered in coastal sand-ridge woodlands (restinga) and nearby riverine zones in 1983. The species is known along the coast from the Ribeira Valley, south-eastern São Paulo State south to at least Joinville, Santa Catarina State. Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club [1992] 112: 158–165.

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A newly recognised species of Catharus The Greater Antillean : is it one thrush sp e c ie s ? Studies by H. Ouellet of Bicknell’s Thrush Recent work by O. Garrido and G. Reynard Catharus (minimus) bicknelli, previously on the Greater Antillean Nightjar Caprimul- treated as a subspecies of Grey-cheeked gus cubanensis suggests that the plumage and Thrush Catharus minimus, have revealed that vocalization differences between birds on Cuba it should be treated as a good species. These and Hispaniola are sufficient to return the taxa show well-marked morphological differ­ taxon to two species: C. eckm ani, the ences, have different breeding and wintering and C. cubanensis, the ranges, and preferences, and are not Cuban Nightjar. known to interbreed. Furthermore, Source: El Pitirre 7(1): 5, 1994. Abstracts vocalisations are so different that the two from the Society of Ornithology forms do not recognise each other, whilst DNA meeting, 1993. studies confirm that they are different spe­ cies. Bicknell’s Thrush, which breeds in north­ Geographic variation in the Scaly-breasted eastern North America is known to winter in Thrasher the Caribbean, with records from Hispaniola, The Scaly-breasted Thrasher Margarops Cuba, Puerto Rico and St. Croix. fuscus is endemic to the Lesser from Source: Wilson Bull. 105: 545–572, 1993. St. Martin south to Grenada, occurring in for­ ests, semi-arid woodlands and in settled ar­ A new name for Myrmeciza immaculata eas. A recent study of the species by D. Buden berlepschi has shown the presence of four separate sub­ The transfer of Pyriglena (later S ip ia ) species, three of which are newly described: berlepschi to the genus Myrmeciza has made M. fuscus atlanticus is endemic to Barbados; it necessary to re-name Myrmeciza M. f. hypenemus is found on the northern immaculata berlepschi (originally described as Lesser Antilles; M. f. schwartzi is endemic to a full species, M. berlepschi) as Myrmeciza St. Lucia; and the nominate M. f. fuscus from immaculata macrorhyncha. Dominica southward to Grenada, excluding St. Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 113: 190, 1993. Lucia and Barbados. Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 113:75–84, 1993.

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Systematics and nomenclature of the An­ a of atrothorax: however, the speci­ dean “” andecola mens of stictothorax were collected within the In this review of the complex history of the range of the subspecies M. a. melanura which systematics and nomenclature of Andean is paler than stictothorax, and has a chestnut Swallow “Petrochelidon” andecola, K. Parkes caste on the upperparts. This whole taxo­ suggests that the evidence afforded by nest­ nomic issue remains unresolved, as little is ing habits and morphological characters is suf­ known about the biology of the taxa involved. ficient to regard the Andean Swallow as a Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 114: 20–24, member of a group that includes the Tawny - 1994. headed and Rough-winged , and pro­ poses to include all these in an expanded ge­ Taxonomic and of nus consisting of three C o b b ’s subgenera, namely Stelgidopteryx, Cobb’s Wren, originally described as a species Alopochelidon, and Ha plochelidon. endemic to the , is usually Source: Auk 110: 947–950, 1993. treated as a subspecies of the House Wren, aedon cobbi. However, in a recent New Species of a n tw re n paper, R. Woods provides compelling evidence from that this taxa should probably be treated as a In June 1990, L. Emmons and E. Wolf made species. It is larger, longer-billed and longer- tape recordings of a species that was subse­ winged than House Wren, and differs consid­ quently identified from voice as a new species erably in its ecology. Unlike the latter, which of Herpsilochmus antwren by the late T. A. utilises a variety of , Cobb’s Wren is Parker. The recordings were made in the very specialised, living entirely in tussac Machariapo valley in La Paz, Bolivia. In grass. This habitat specialisation, coupled March 1993, M. Pearman visited this valley with the introduction of feral cats, rats and and found that this was a common bird in the other mammals throughout much of the Falk- dry forests at the head of the valley. Morpho­ lands has evidently led to a decline in the logical, biometric and vocalization data indi­ range of Cobb’s Wren to the extent that it is cate that this antwren is indeed a new form, now confined to a number of small islands. most closely related to the Herpsilochmus During 1983–1993, Cobb’s Wren was found on pileatus complex. only 17 such islands, and its conservation sta­ Source: Bird Conserv. Internatn. 3: 105–117, tus must be considered as Vulnerable. Con­ 1993. servation measures with careful monitoring may be necessary if it is to survive. Spot-breasted Antwren: an on-going problem Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 113: 195–207, A new investigation by D. Teixeira and co­ 1993. workers on the biology of Black-throated Antwren Myrmeciza atrothorax has again The all-black Mourning Sierra-finch: a rein­ highlighted the on-going problem of the taxo­ stated taxon nomic status of the closely related Spot­ Recent work by J. Fjeldså has shown that an breasted A ntw ren M. stictothorax. This latter almost all-black subspecies of Mourning Si­ taxon is known only from a single pair col­ erra-Finch fruticeti exists in west­ lected on the lower Tapajos in Amazonian Bra­ ern Oruro and Potosí, Bolivia (and possibly zil, and a male from the Rio Branco in Acre. into the very nearest alpine zone of northern The distinguishing features are the more ex­ ). Originally described as P. coracinus in tensive white underparts of the female, and a 1891, this taxon was subsequently white-spotted breast on the male M. synonymized, although this most recent work stictothorax. However, males of M. atrothorax suggests that this was mistaken, and rein­ from the northern bank of the Amazon may states the taxon as a well-marked subspecies also have some white marks on the breast, P. fruticeti coracinus which most probably oc­ and two female specimens have been found cupies the pumice slopes and lava formations with extensive white on the abdomen (in the with scattered Polylepis shrubbery. pattern attributed to stictothorax). This all Source: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 113: 121–126, seems to suggest that stictothorax may be but 1993.

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Taxonomic Round-up

A new species of Doliornis cotinga from Ec­ montane forest avifauna of the Loja prov­ u ad o r ince, southern Ecuador. Cambridge, U.K.: A new species of Doliornis has recently been International Council for Bird Preservation described from the Andes of Ecuador4 (see (Study Report 49). photo, p40). Previously this genus was known 2. Fjeldså, J. & Krabbe, N. (1990) Birds of the from one species, Bay-vented Cotinga D. high Andes. [Copenhagen:] Zoological Mu­ sclateri, confined to central Peru, from the seum, University of Copenhagen and Eastern Andes in San Martín department to Svendborg: Apollo Books. Junín. Birds recorded (for the first time in 3. Renjifo, L. M. (1994) First records of the 19891) along the eastern cordillera of the An­ Bay-vented Cotinga Doliornis sclateri in Co­ des from north-eastern Ecuador to extreme lombia. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 114: 101–103. northern Peru refer to a new species, Chest- 4. Robbins, M. B., Rosenberg, G. H. & Sornoza nut-bellied Cotinga D. remseni4, thus confirm­ M., F. (1994) A new species of cotinga ing the conclusion of Fjeldså & Krabbe2. D. (Cotingidae: Doliornis) from the Ecuadorian remseni occurs near the tree-line between Andes, with comments on plumage se­ 3100 and 3650 m and has been recorded with quences in Doliornis and Ampelion. Auk certainty from just three localities: on the west 111: 1–7. slope of Cerro Mongus, Carchi prov.; Podocarpus National Park, Loja / Zamora- Diademed : a new species from Chinchipe border; and on the Zamora- Bolivia Chinchipe (Ecuador) / Cajamarca (Peru) bor­ Dense, humid, temperate cloud-forest just 1.5 der4. However, birds recorded at the Cañon del hours drive from the Bolivian capital La Paz Quindío natural reserve in the Colombian has yielded a new species of tapaculo in the Central Andes3 almost certainly also refer to notoriously confounding genus . this new species4. Bret Whitney discovered the distinctive new bird during an avifaunal survey in February R eferences 1992, when he heard an unknown tapaculo 1. Bloch, H., Poulsen, M. K., Rahbek, C. & song at 3200 m along the main thoroughfare Rasmussen, J. F. (1991) A survey of the that descends the east slope of the Andes.

10 COTINGA 3 Taxonomic Round-up Working with Omar Rocha O. of the Museo ludovicianus, which breeds in the temperate Nacional de Historia Natural in La Paz, forests of eastern U.S.A. (wintering in Mexico), Whitney returned to the site in March 1993 P. l. melanocephalus breeding in forests of and captured the individual shown in the western U.S.A., and P. l. rostratus subsp. nov. photo. Subsequent field work and museum (closest to melanocephalus), which breeds (and research revealed that the tapaculo is a com­ is possibly resident in) the pine-oak moun­ mon bird in the narrow elevational band be­ tains of north-eastern Mexico. tween about 3100 and 3300 m from central Source: Phillips, A. R. (1994) Bull. Brit. Cochabamba, Bolivia to southern Puno, Peru. Orn. Club 114: 162–170. Although much of the habitat for the new spe­ cies is remote and appears little-disturbed in On the subspecies of Firewood-gatherer recent satellite photos, the type-locality is eas­ A detailed examination of skins of the ily accessible by road and has been heavily Firewood-gatherer has shown that the subspe­ damaged by the activities of a gold-mining cies Anumbius annumbi machrisi Stager, 1959 cooperative over just the past five years. is a synonym of the monotypic species Whitney’s formal description of the new bird, Anumbius annumbi (Vieillot, 1817). which he has named Scytalopus schulenbergi, Source: Straube, F. C. (1994) Bull. Brit. Diademed Tapaculo (see photo, p40), appeared Orn. Club 114: 46–48. in the December 1994 Wilson Bulletin. Bret M. Whitney G e o g ra p h ic variation in the A n d e a n Siskin Field Guides Incorporated, P.O. Box 160723, Recent observations of Andean Siskin Austin, Texas 78716, U.S.A. Carduelis spinescens in Carchi province, Ec­ uador, have led to a reassessment of the vari­ Tepui Manakin, a species split from White- ous known races. Examination of over 100 fronted Manakin specimens suggests that C. s. “capitaneus” of A recent reanalysis of plumage variation, the Colombian Santa Marta mountains should syringeal morphology and vocalizations in the be synonymized with the nominate spinescens White-fronted Manakin Lepidothrix serena which is distributed throughout the coastal has shown that the subspecies suavissima mountains of northern Venezuela, the west­ warrants full species status. The new species, ern Venezuelan Andes, the Sierra de Perijá Tepui Manakin L. suavissima is found in and the Colombian East Andes. The nominate southern and eastern Venezuela and form (including birds from Santa Marta) is and differs from the (now) monotypic L. serena strongly sexually dimorphic in plumage whilst (of and , south to the subspecies nigricaudata of the Colombian near Manaus, Brazil and southern Amapá West and Central Andes shows only minor near the mouth of the Amazon) in voice and plumage differences between the sexes. The plumage features such as a small orange-yel­ subspecific identity of the birds from north­ low patch on the upper breast of the male ern Ecuador (Carchi and Sucumbíos) remains which is entirely black in male L. serena. [See unresolved. Ridgely & Tudor, 1994 Birds of South America, Source: Robbins, M. B. et al. (1994) Orn. 2., for a commentary on the appropriate Eng­ Neotropical 5: 61–63. lish name]. Source: Prum, R. O. (1994) Condor 96: 692– 702.

Northern Pheucticus grosbeaks redefined A study of the “Rose-breasted Grosbeak” Pheucticus ludovicianus and “Black-headed Grosbeak” P. “melanocephalus” has suggested that there is no valid evidence (e.g. voice and biology) to suggest they should remain valid biological species. For the new polytypic spe­ cies, P. ludovicianus, the name Black-hooded Grosbeak is proposed, comprising P. l. Tepui Manakin Lepidothrix suavissima (Charles Gambill)

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Black-chested Fruiteater Pipreola lubomirskii (Roger Barnes) (see p6)

Scaled Fruiteater Ampelioides tschudii (Roger Barnes) (see p6)

A new species of S c y ta lo p u s tapaculo from Bolivia Diademed Tapaculo Scytalopus schulenbergi (Omar Rocha O.) (see p 10)

A new species of D o lio rn is cotinga from Ecuador Chestnut-bellied Cotinga Doliornis remseni Royal Sunangel Heliangelus regalis female (M.B. Robbins — VIREO) (see p 10) (Stuart Butchart) (see p6)

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A new species of pygmy-owl from the lected from the Rio São Francisco area, and Eastern Andes differs from other described nighthawks in A new species of pygmy-owl has recently been lacking white on the wings, tail and throat. described from the Eastern Andes of Ecuador The two specimens collected were males: the and Peru1. Subtropical Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium female and indeed the voice of the species are parkeri sp. nov. is a bird of the subtropical for­ as yet undescribed. The nearest relative is est subcanopy on outlying ridges from the considered to be Least Nighthawk Chordeiles main Andean chain. The species is found be­ pusillus. No common name has yet been given tween 1450 and 1975 m and is considered to the species. uncommon; vocalisations and plumage indi­ cate its nearest relative to be the Least Reference Pygmy-Owl G. minutissimum complex. The or­ 1. Lencioni-Neto, F. (1994) Une nouvelle nithologists reporting the discovery, Steve espèce de Chordeiles (Aves, Caprimulgidae) Howell and Mark Robbins, also analyse the de Bahia (Bresil). Alauda 62: 241–245. species limits within the Least Pygmy-Owl complex2. They report that consistent song New subspecies described from differences among the 10 described taxa in the Venezuela , along with other relevant The Fundación W. H. Phelps in Caracas has data, support the recognition of four additional published a paper describing several new sub­ species in addition to the recently described G. species from Venezuela1, namely: Little hardyi and G. parkeri. The four species are: Cuckoo Piaya minuta barinensis; Speckled Colima Pygmy-Owl G. palmarum of western Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys Mexico (including the subspecies palmarum, debellardiana; Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle oberholseri, and griscomi); Tamaulipas Pygmy- americana bottomeana; Long-tailed Antbird Owl G. sanchezi of south-eastern Mexico, Drymophila caudata aristeguietana; Oliv­ and the Pacific coast of north­ aceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus olivaceus ern South America (including the subspecies jelambianus; Coraya Wren Thryothorus coraya griseiceps, rarum, and occultum); and Brazil­ barrowcloughiana; Grey-throated Warbler ian Pygmy-Owl G. minutissimum of south Basileuterus cinereicollis zuliensis; Beryl-span­ -eastern Brazil and adjacent . gled Tangara nigroviridis lozanoana and Orange-bellied Euphonia Euphonia References xanthogaster lecroyana. Additionally, the taxo­ 1. Robbins, M. B. & Howell, S. N. G. (1995) A nomic status of Black-headed Pionites new species of pygmy-owl (Strigidae: melanocephala melanocephala and two subspe­ Glaucidium) from the eastern Andes. Wil­ cies of Black-crested Antshrike Sakesphoris son Bull. 107: 1–6. canadensis (trinitatis and intermedius) is dis­ 2. Howell, S. N. G. & Robbins, M. B. (1995) cussed. Species limits of the Least Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium minutissimum) complex. Wilson Reference Bull. 107: 7–25. 1. Hostos, R. A. & Chinchilla, L. A. (1994) Descripción de n u eve subespecies nuevas A new species of nighthawk from Bahia, y comentarios sobre dos especies de aves Brazil Venezuela. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cienc. Nat. 148: Chordeiles vieillardi sp. nov. is a small 229–257. nighthawk from the xerophytic caatinga of Bahia, Brazil1. The type-specimen was col­

12 C O T IN G A 4 Taxonomic Round-up The centenary volume of the British Correction Ornithologists’ Club, 1992 — In Taxonomic Round-up, Cotinga 3, the newly Avian systematics and taxonomy described Tepui Manakin Lepidothrix The above mentioned special edition of Bull. suavissima was mentioned as possessing a Brit. Orn. Club (112A) has much to interest small orange-yellow patch on the breast of the Cotinga readers. Of particular relevance are male, a feature described as lacking in its con­ papers by H. Oullet on “, gener White-fronted Manakin L. serena. This zoogeography and taxonomic problems in the description is erroneous, and in fact the oppo­ Neotropical genus (Aves: site is true, with the Tepui Manakin (also Emberizinae)”, and by F. Vuilleumier, M. called Orange-bellied Manakin: see illustra­ LeCroy and E. Mayr presenting a thorough tion in Birds of Venezuela) in fact lacks the review of new species of bird described be­ orange-yellow chest-spot completely. The edi­ tween 1981 and 1990. This latter analysis tors wish to apologise for any confusion this includes over 30 Neotropical species, with the may have caused. authors sometimes arriving at different con­ clusions as to the status of various taxa than the workers originally describing them.

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A new species of Phylloscartes agriculture and accidental damage pustulatus group to various (Tyrannidae) from the moun­ from fire. The avifauna of the area subspecies. It was discovered that tains of southern Bahia, Brazil includes a number of threatened variation in Mexico within the A new species of flycatcher, species, including an as-yet species is largely clinal, with the Phylloscartes beckeri, has been undescribed species of Synallaxis. north-western birds having the described by Gonzaga & Pacheco • Gonzaga, L. P. & Pacheco, J. F. heaviest streaking. The material from the Serra da Ouricana, an (1995) A new species of examined permitted the formal area of foothill forest located to the Phylloscartes (Tyrannidae) from recognition of the following six south-east of Boa Nova, Bahia, the mountains of southern races ofpustulatus in the country: Brazil. The vernacular name Bahia Bahia, Brazil. Bull. Brit. Orn. I. p. microstictus from north- Tyrannulet has been proposed for Club 115: 88–97. central Sonora south; I. p. the species, which belongs to a graysonii from the Tres Marias group including Mottle-cheeked Taxonomy of the northern Islands; I. p. yaegeri (subsp. nov.) Tyrannulet P. ventralis from the races of the Scarlet-headed or from the coastal lowlands of south-east and Long-tailed Streak-backed Oriole Icterus southernmost Sinaloa south to Tyrannulet P. ceciliae from the pustulatus southern Nayarit; I. p. dickermani north-east. The new species can be A. R. Phillips has examined (subsp. nov.) in the Pacific found in the remnant areas of material from Mexico, and based lowlands from south-westernmost forest, all of which are under on these findings has assigned Jalisco and coastal Colima east to threat from clearance for different populations of the Icterus at least southern Guerrero, then

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north to the Tierra Colorado area; and I. p. interior (subsp. nov.) from southern and central Mexico away from the coast, from central Colima, and from southern Michoacán east probably to western Oaxaca and north at least to Morelos. • Phillips A. R. (1995) The northern races of Icterus pustulatus (Icteridae), Scarlet­ headed or Streak-backed Oriole? Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 115: 98– 105.

Chestnut-throated and Black- throated Huet-huets: two good species Howell & Webb have analysed vocal and ecological differences between Black-throated Huet-huet Pteroptochus tarnii and Chestnut- Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium brasilianum (D. Beadle) throated Huet-huet P. castaneus. Previously, the taxonomic status of the two allopatric taxa has varied Wetherbee, who transferred the mainly in its larger body size: from their being races of P. tarnii name A. tricolor from the extinct individual birds occur in brown, to forming two allospecies. Field Cuban to an also extinct red and grey morphs, with most studies in Chile have demonstrated form on Hispaniola (re-naming belonging to a brown morph with that the two taxa are good species; Cuban Macaw, A. cubensis), are no the tail barred rust and brown. in particular the vocalisations, longer valid, and that tricolor Interestingly, however, previously considered similar, are deserves to be enshrined in the vocalisations are rather similar to in fact readily distinguishable in scientific literature as Cuban other G. brasilianum from South the field. The authors also contend Macaw. America. that the plumage of the two taxa is • Walters, M. (1995) On the status • König, C. & Wink, M. (1995) “strikingly different”, and that of A. tricolor Bechstein. Bull. Eine neue Unterart des Brasil- there are no signs of plumage Brit. Orn. Club 115: 168–170. Sperlingskauzes aus intergradation between them. Zentralargentinien: Glaucidium • Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. A new subspecies of Ferrugi­ brasilianum stranecki n. spp. J. (1995) Species status of the nous Pygmy-Owl Orn. 136: 461–465. Chestnut-throated Huet-huet König & Wink describe a new sub­ Pteroptochus castaneus. Bull. species of Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Brit. Orn. Club 115: 171–177. Glaucidium brasilianum from central . G. b. stranecki The Cuban Macaw: the latest is found in rather open country chapter in its taxonomic history with small groves of trees and M. Walters has re-examined the bushes, often used for cattle status ofAra tricolor, and has rearing. It differs from other surmised that the arguments of populations of G. brasilianum

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A new species of Neopelma the south-east) and Plain S. Emerald Chlorostilbon olivaresi Tyrant-Manakin from south­ infuscata (to the north-east) is found in the edaphic scrub and eastern Brazil Spinetails of the Atlantic Forest. adjacent forests of the middle and Bret Whitney and his Brazilian Bahia Spinetail differs morphologi­ upper levels of the Sierra. The colleagues are undertaking much cally from Plain Spinetail by virtue author explores the origin of the research in Brazil at present, and a of the former’s obvious yellow post­ new species and also analyses the number of interesting conclusions ocular streak, and from relationships within the C. have already been drawn from this Rufous-capped Spinetail (consid­ mellisugus complex, and work. Based on clear differences in ered its sister species) by its dark concludes that the various forms external morphology, vocalisa­ grey, not whitish-brown underpart are best treated as comprising a tions, and habitat, the authors coloration. Bahia Spinetail was single superspecies. The form have split Wied’s Tyrant-Manakin located between 900 and 1000 m melanorhynchus (including Neopelma aurifrons into the in the tangled undergrowth of pumilus) of western Colombia lowland N. aurifrons (which montane forest, a habitat critically and western Ecuador is suffi­ retains the common name) in the endangered in this part of Bahia. ciently distinct to deserve north of the former species’s • Pacecho, J. F. & Gonzaga, L. P. (allo)species rank, and the author range, and the montane Serra do (1995) A new species of has proposed the English name Mar Tyrant-Manakin N. Synallaxis of the ruficapilla / West . crysolophum in the south. The infuscata complex from eastern • Stiles, F. G. (1996) A new paper outlines data which Brazil (Passeriformes: species of emerald humming­ suggest that the two taxa may Furnariidae). Ararajuba 3: 3–11. bird (Trochilidae, not even be their closest relatives, Chlorostilbon) from the Sierra and also discusses diversification nattereri reinstated de Chiribiquete, southeastern within the Neopelma / Tyranneutes as a valid species Colombia, with a review of the complex. Using this taxonomic Bret Whitney and colleagues have C. mellisugus complex. Wilson decision as an example, the drawn attention to the taxonomic Bull. 108(1): 1–27. authors also make a plea for status of Speckle-breasted recognising the need to conserve Antpitta Hylopezus nattereri which A new genus of antbird “representative populations of was described as a new species in (Formicariidae) from southern isolated forms, regardless of their 1937, but subsumed in White- Brazil level of formal classification”. browed Antpitta H. ochroleucus M. Bornschein et al. have recently • Whitney, B. M., Pacheco, J. F. & two years later. There are clear discovered a new genus of antbird Parrini R. (1995) Two species of differences between the two taxa in Paraná state, southern Brazil, Neopelma in southeastern in voice, habitat, distribution and in taboa Typha dominguensis Brazil and diversification within morphology (see Ridgely and swamps adjacent to the main the Neopelma / Tyranneutes Tudor 1994. The birds of South road connecting two of the complex: implications of the America, 2). region’s busiest summer resorts. subspecies concept for conserva­ • Whitney, B.M., Pacecho, J.F., The generic name is tion (Passeriformes: Tyran- Isler, P. R. & Isler, M. L. (1995) Stymphalornis and the specific nidae). Ararajuba 3: 43–53. Hylopezus nattereri is a valid name is S. acutirostris. As yet species (Passeriformes: Formi­ there is no common name for the A new species of Synallaxis cariidae). Ararajuba 3: 37–42. species, which is perhaps most spinetail from eastern Brazil closely related to Formicivora Fernando Pacecho and Luiz A new species of emerald . The new genus has been Gonzaga have described Bahia hummingbird from Colombia differentiated from related Spinetail Synallaxis whitneyi from Gary Stiles has recently described genera using syringeal structure. the montane Atlantic Forest of the a new species of Chlorostilbon Unfortunately, the new species Boa Nova area in southern Bahia. hummingbird from the Sierra de may already be endangered due The new species is closely related Chiribiquete, south-eastern to the loss of its habitat to to Rufous-capped S. ruficapilla (to Colombia, where Chiribiquete drainage and development.

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brown Wren C. peruana. They have concluded that this taxon is better treated as three species based on discrete morphometric and marked plumage differences. These are: Sharpe’s Wren C. olivascens (including C. o. bogotensis and C. o. olivascens) from Colombia south to the extreme northern part of Depto. Amazonas, Peru; Peruvian Wren C. peruana from Depto. Amazonas south to Depto. Ayacucho, Peru; and Superciliated Wren C. fulva (including the undescribed Stymphalornis acutirostris sp. nov. female (Bianca Reinert) subspecies; C. f. fulva; and another undescribed subspecies) ranging • Bornschein, M. R., Reinert, B. A reappraisal of the taxonomic from Cordillera Vilcabamba, L. & Teixeira, D. M. (1995) Um status of Andean Depto. Cuzco, Peru, south to novo Formicariidae do sul do Cochabamba in Bolivia. Brasil (Aves, Passeriformes). R.T. Brumfield and J. Van • Brumfield, R. T. & Van Publicação Técnico-Cientifica Remsen have examined Remsen, J. (1996) Geographic do Instituto Iguaçu de Pesquisa geographic variation of variation and species limits in e Preservação Ambiental, No. 1, morphometric and plumage Cinnycerthia wrens of the Rio de Janeiro. characters of several populations Andes. Wilson Bull. 108 (2): previously included in Sepia- 205–227.

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A new from paper outlines aspects of the appears that only the purchase of eastern Am azonia behaviour, ecology and conserva­ some of the plantations can Three Brazilian ornithologists tion of the species. safeguard its future. have recently described a new • Salaman, P. G. & Stiles, F. G. • Pacecho, J. F. et al. (1996) A Hylexetastes woodcreeper from (1996) A distinctive new new genus and species of northern Mato Grosso, between species of vireo (Passeriformes: furnariid (Aves: Furnariidae) the Araguaia and Xingu rivers. Vireonidae) from the western from the cocoa-growing region Hylexetastes brigidai (for which Andes of Colombia. Ibis 138: of southeastern Bahia, Brazil. the authors have not proposed a 610–619. Wilson Bull. 108: 397–433. vernacular name) is closely allied to Red-billed Woodcreeper H. The taxonom ic status of perrotii, and Uniform Strix chacoensis Woodcreeper H. uniformis, also of Roberto Straneck and Felix Vidoz eastern Amazonia. The specimens have analysed the morphology have all been collected in terra and vocalisations of Strix firme and second-growth forest (rufipes) chacoensis, the Chaco and some individuals have been form of Rufous-legged Owl Strix observed following army ant rufipes, and concluded that it is swarms. The authors explore the specifically distinct from the possible mechanisms of nominate form. They do not speciation in the genus, relating propose a vernacular name for their ideas to those of other Strix chacoensis. Their paper ornithologists such as Jürgen includes spectrograms of the two Haffer. species, as well as morphometric • Cardoso da Silva, J. M. et al. details of all the taxa. (1995) A new species of the Choco Vireo Vireo masteri (David • Straneck, R. J. & Vidoz, F. genus Hylexetastes Quinn /BirdLife) (1995) Sobre el estado (Dendrocolaptidae) from taxonómico de Strix rufipes eastern Amazonia. Bull. Brit. (King) y de Strix chacoensis Orn. Club 115: 200–206 A new furnariid from south-east (Cherrie y Reichenberger) Bahia, Brazil (Aves: Strigidae). Notulas A new vireo from Colom bia Fernando Pacheco, Bret Whitney Faunisticas 74: 1–5. The formal description of the new and others have discovered a new For details of this journal (and vireo, found independently by furnariid in Bahia, which has any other difficult-to-trace article Paul Salaman and F. Gary Stiles, required the erection of a new or paper), please contact Graeme awaited substantial sponsorship genus, Acrobatornis, to accommo­ Green at the Club’s address. from an individual or organisa­ date it. Pink-legged Graveteiro tion willing to pay for the Acrobatornis fonsecai is a small The taxonom ic status of privilege of this new species arboreal furnariid entirely Reiser’s Tyrannulet being named after them. This dependent on the tall shade trees Phyllom ias reiseri goal was finally achieved, and the found in cocoa plantations in the J. M. Cardoso da Silva has Choco Vireo Vireo masteri has Atlantic Forest area of south-east analysed the status of this now been described by the two Bahia. Unfortunately, a disease- central Brazilian endemic, which finders in Ibis. The species is induced catastrophe has resulted has been considered a subspecies confined to the very humid and in the move to convert these of Greenish Tyrannulet P. increasingly threatened forests of plantations, and cut and sell the virescens by some taxonomists. the Chocó region of Colombia, tall shade trees within them. The author has re-evaluated all where it seems to be restricted to Therefore, this seemingly unique of the specimens used by previous a narrow altitudinal range furnariid may already be workers, examined recently between 1200 and 1600 m. The critically endangered, and it collected material and new

11 COTINGA 7 Taxonomic Round-up ecological information pertaining coast of Venezuela. The St Lucian striatigularis to this taxon, concluding that it is birds are deemed sufficiently r e a s s i g n e d indeed worthy of specific status. distinct to allocate them Richmond’s Woodcreeper • Cardoso da Silva, J. M. (1996) subspecific status. Xiphorhynchus striatigularis, New data support the specific • Garrido, O. H. & Remsen, J. V. known only from the type- status of Reiser’s Tyrannulet, a (1996) A new subspecies of the specimen collected near Altamira, central Brazilian endemic. Pearly-eyed Thrasher Tamaulipas, Mexico on 18 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 116: 109– Margarops fuscatus (Mimidae) November 1894, and variously 113. from the island of St. Lucia, considered a valid but presum­ Lesser Antilles. Bull. Brit. Orn. ably very rare taxon, or ignored, The Cuban form of the Red­ Club 116: 75–80. is considered an aberrant Ivory­ winged Blackbird billed Woodcreeper X. flavigaster Orlando Garrido and Arturo A new subspecies of Scaly- by Kevin Winker in a recent Kirkconnell have recently breasted Thrasher from St. study of plumage and analysed the taxonomy of the Vincent, Lesser A ntilles morphometries. Winker concludes various taxa of Red-winged Andrew Kratter and Orlando that although hybrid origin Blackbird and concluded that Garrido have recently described cannot be excluded for there is strong evidence for Margarops fuscus vincenti, a new striatigularis, it is best regarded elevating the Cuban form to full subspecies of Scaly-breasted as highly improbable, and this species status, as Agelaius Thrasher which joins three other taxon is currently best considered assimilis. This taxon was subspecies in comprising the full a synonym of X. flavigaster described as a new species by species M. fuscus: hypenemus saltarius, the type of which was Gundlach in 1850, but eventually from Saba and Barbuda south to collected in the same area the became regarded as a subspecies and Maria-Galante, following day. of the Red-winged Blackbird, schwartzi from St. Lucia and • Winker, K. (1995) following the publication of atlanticus from Barbados. Xiphorhynchus striatigularis Hellmayr (Catalogue of birds of • Kratter, A. & Garrido, O. (1996) (Dendrocolaptidae): Nomen the and adjacent A new subspecies of Margarops monstrositatum. Auk 112: islands. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. fuscus (Scaly-breasted 1066–1070. Zool. Series Vol. XIII, Chicago, Thrasher) from St. Vincent, Illinois: 1937). Lesser Antilles. Bull. Brit. Orn. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN • Garrido, O. & Kirkconnell, A. Club 116: 189–193. PARROT TAXONOMY (1996) Taxonomic status of the • Compiled by Nigel J. Collar Cuban form of Red-winged Yungas Tody-Tyant Hemitriccus Amazona kawalli is a valid Blackbird. Wilson Bull. 108: s p o d io p s is a m em ber of the s p e c i e s 372–374. s u b g e n u s S n e t h la g e a It appears that Amazona kawalli, Mario Cohn-Haft has recently described by Grantsau and A new subspecies of Pearly-eyed presented arguments for placing Camargo1 in 1989 from a few old Thrasher from St. Lucia, Lesser the Bolivian endemic Hemitriccus museum skins from Amazonas, A n t i l l e s spodiops into Snethlagea. The Brazil, and some live captive Orlando Garrido and Van Remsen importance of the analysis goes birds in São Paulo said to come have described Margarops beyond mere semantics, however, from the Tocantins River in Pará, fuscatus klinikowskii from the as the reappraisal of this taxon is a valid species. Doubts had island of St Lucia. The Pearly- and its relationship with various been raised that it might be an eyed Thrasher M. fuscatus is other taxa has important aberrant Mealy Amazon A. endemic to the West Indies, and implications for the biogeography farinosa, which it closely formerly comprised three of the region, suggesting a link resembles. Three further skins subspecies: nominate fuscatus between the Andes and south­ have been located in museums from the Bahamas, Beata Island, east Brazil. (Belém, Tring and Berlin, the one Puerto Rico (and satellites), and • Cohn-Haft, M. (1996) Why the in the latter already with an Virgin Islands and northern Yungas Tody-tyrant infrasubspecific name by Lesser Antilles to Antigua and (Hemitriccus spodiops) is a Stresemann in 1924), and Barbuda (also La Desirade); Snethlagea, and w hy it comparison of the original densirostris, from Guadeloupe to Matters. Auk 113: 709–714. description with this material St Lucia; and bonairensis on shows that kawalli is consistently Bonaire and Horquilla in the Los distinct in several subtle Hermanos archipelago off the characters from the sympatric

12 COTINGA 7 Taxonomic Round-up farinosa2. Most notable are the are much smaller (34 cm as Pearly Parakeet P. perlata. In bare eye-ring colour, broad against 38 cm), while neoxena is 1983 Thomas Arndt suggested, creamy white in farinosa but dull the same size (34 cm) but has and in 1986 he and Paul Roth grey in kawalli, the shorter tail of breast and abdomen distinctly confirmed, that Spix’s type kawalli, which means that the bluish green. He thus gives the material of perlata was in fact terminal yellow band is much name A. a. koenigi to the juvenile rhodogaster: in other narrower than in farinosa, and mainland birds. words Spix’s name perlata is only the presence of red at the base of • Arndt. T. (1995) Lexicon of valid for those populations the outer tail feathers in kawalli, , part 7. Bretten, subsequently referred to as absent in farinosa. Most unusual Germany: Arndt Verlag. rhodogaster. However, if one is the presence of a thin crescent accepts that the differences of bare white skin bordering the Reidentification of F o r p u s a n d between traditional rhodogaster base of the bill in kawalli. It may P y r r h u r a type-specim ens and perlata are sufficiently great well be that it will take its name Two long overdue adoptions of to treat them as two species (and from this feature, e.g. as “White- correct parrot names emerge in in many recent treatments they faced Amazon”, but field Stotz et al. Neotropical birds: have not been listed immediately observations may result in better ecology and conservation (1996). next to each other), the name suggestions. Both concern reidentification of rhodogaster must become a junior 1. Grantsau, R. & Camargo, type-specimens collected by Spix synonym of perlata, and perlata H.F.A. (1989). Nova espécie de and named as new by him in can only apply to birds formerly Amazona (Aves. ). 1824. called rhodogaster; the new name Revta. Bras. Biol. 49: 1017– The first is Forpus for birds formerly called perlata 1020. xanthopterygius, the name must be the first subspecies 2. Collar, N. J. & Pittman. A. J. commonly given to Blue-winged described after perlata came into (1996) Amazona kawalli is a Parrotlet. As long ago as 1905, use. The English names of the valid name for a valid species. Hellmayr published his discovery “lost” taxa (P. rhodogaster and P. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 116: 256– that Spix’s type was in fact a perlata perlata) do not, however, 265. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet shift their allegiances, so the Brotogeris chiriri, so arrangement becomes: N ew subspecies of A r a t i n g a Taczanowski’s name crassirostris P. perlata Crimson-bellied acuticaudata described from came into use for the Forpus Parakeet V e n e z u e l a everyone thought Spix had been P. lepida Pearly Parakeet The long puzzle over the status of writing about. In Peters’ checklist P. l. lepida Sharp-tailed Parakeets Aratinga crassirostris was treated as a race P. l. coerulescens acuticaudata in northern of passerinus, but in 1945 P. l. anerythra Venezuela and adjacent Colombia Gyldenstolpe, in splitting these has been resolved. For years the two entities, mistakenly Stotz et al. grasp this particular curious situation had existed in reintroduced the name nettle. Forshaw’s response in the which the names of the nearest xanthopterygius, by which, in third edition of Parrots of the races, either neoxena from Isla ignorance of Hellmayr’s paper world was simply to merge the Margarita off the Venezuelan (Peters not having even referred two species as one, dropping coast or haemorrhous in north- to it), most of the ornithological rhodogaster altogether and cast Brazil, had been used to world has known it ever since. It thereby keeping the Pearly cover this mainland population, took Olivério Pinto in his Novo Parakeet as P. perlata. This in despite the fact that the catálogo das aves do Brasil (1978) itself is certainly a viable differences between neoxena and to point this error out, but as his response, but any taxonomy haemorrhous are clear enough book is virtually unobtainable which continues to give specific that it ought to have been nobody (not even Helmut Sick) status to such weakly differenti­ possible to say definitively which noticed, until now, that the proper ated forms as Blaze-winged name applied. Thomas Arndt has name for the Blue-winged Parakeet devillei (as compared large series of all these Parrotlet must remain Forpus Forshaw does) cannot ignore the populations and shown that the crassirostris. claims of a form as distinctive as Venezuelan mainland birds, The second case is more the Crimson-bellied Parakeet to although very similar in plumage complicated. This concerns the full species status as well. to haemorrhous except in having two Pyrrhura parrots commonly less brownish-red to the inner known as Crimson-bellied webs of the undersides of the tail, Parakeet P. rhodogaster and

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A n e w Cranioleuca s p i n e t a i l of south-west Ecuador and because of this the three taxa are from Bolivia northern Peru, and the Pallid not particularly closely related. Sjoerd Maijer and Jon Fjeldså Spinetail Cranioleuca pallida of • Maijer, S. & Fjeldså, J. (1997) have described the Bolivian eastern Brazil. The authors Description of a new Spinetail Cranioleuca henricae suggest that these taxa exhibit a Cranioleuca spinetail from from the dry Andean valleys of La ‘leapfrog’ pattern of geographical Bolivia and a “leapfrog” Paz, Bolivia. The new species is distribution, with intervening pattern of geographical very similar to the Line-cheeked related species differing variation within the genus. Ibis Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis markedly. They conclude that 139: 606–616.

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A new em berizid from Brazil and colourimetric variation in Le Cuba, Cozumel and Grand Marcos Raposo has described San Conte’s Thrasher Toxostoma Cayman being closely related, but Francisco Sparrow Arremon lecontei, to clarify subspecific and divergent from those found on franciscanus from the dry species limits. They conclude that , Hispaniola, and Puerto caatinga zone of Bahia and Minas the taxon found on the Pacific Rico, which are themselves quite Gerais. The species is perhaps the coast of Baja California, distinct from each other. sister taxon of Arremon Toxostoma l. arenicola warrants semitorquatus of the Atlantic specific status. Special publication: Dickerm an, Forest zone of Brazil, itself soon • Zink, R. M. & Blackwell, R. C. R. W . (com piler) (1997) T h e e r a to be elevated to full species (1997) Species limits in the Le o f Allan R. Phillips: a festschrift. status (Raposo & Parrini in Conte’s Thrasher. Condor 99: Dickerm an: Albuquerque, press). The author describes the 132–138. N e w M e x i c o morphological differences This special publication, available between the new species and A reappraisal of species lim its from the compiler (address related taxa, and also highlights within the Variable below), suggests a number of the plight of the caatinga and dry c o m p l e x taxonomic revisions. deciduous woodland of the valley F. Gary Stiles has looked closely Lawrence’s Flycatcher of of the Rio São Francisco. at the degree of relationship Grenada, Trinidad and • Raposo, M. A. (1997) A new between the Variable Sporophila northern South America species of Arremon aurita and Wing-barred (Richard C. Banks). (Passeriformes: Emberizidae) S. americana. The If this taxon is placed in the from Brazil. Ararajuba 5: 3–9. discovery of a hybridisation zone genus Lathrotriccus with the between the former and Grey species euleri, it should be L. A new m anakin from Brazil Seedeater S. intermedia meant flaviventris, or L. euleri The discovery of a new Antilophia the closeness of the relationship flaviventris, depending on rank. If manakin from Ceará, north-east needed reappraising. The analysis retained in the genus Empidonax, Brazil has come to light, although led the author to conclude that the specific name should be the formal species description has the following allospecies should bolivianus Allen. yet to be published in a recog­ be proposed: S. corvina (= nised journal. Antilophia ‘aurita’), ; S. Spotted Owl of southern bokermanni is a sister taxon of intermedia, Grey Seedeater; S. Rocky Mountains to central Antilophia galeata, the Helmeted murallae, Caqueta Seedeater; and Mexico (Robert W. Dickerman). Manakin which inhabits gallery S. americana, Wing-barred Populations of Spotted Owl from forests in interior Brazil and Seedeater. He also concludes that this region have normally been Paraguay. However, the new the subspecies S. i. augustini is assigned to Strix occidentalis species differs markedly from not recognisable, and that S. a. lucida. However, specimen Helmeted Manakin by virtue of chocoana is a synonym. analysis suggests they should be the adult male’s almost wholly • Stiles F. G. (1996) When black assigned to three subspecies, white body plumage. Hybrid plus white equals gray: the including a new subspecies, S. o. origin has been ruled out by the nature of variation in the juanaphillipsae (Volcano Spotted presence of several males and Variable Seedeater complex Owl), for birds collected in Mexico females at the type-locality, which (Emberizinae: Sporophila). to the west of the Puebla state is the humid forest of the Ornitologia Neotropical 7: boundary. Chapada do Araripe in the south 75–107. Northern Cardinals of the of Ceará state (‘Chapada’ Caribbean Slope of Mexico signifies a plateau). The humid Stripe-headed Tanager — how (Kenneth C. Parkes). forest of the type-locality is under m any species? There are currently six recog­ threat but efforts are being made Recent research on Stripe-headed nised subspecies of Northern at a local level to conserve the Tanager Spindalis zena, by Nedra Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis area. Klein of the American Museum of inhabiting the Caribbean slope of • Artur Coelho in litt. 1997. Natural History was presented to Mexico from Texas south to Isla the 1996 meeting of the Society of Cozumel. These are joined by C. c A new species of thrasher from Caribbean Ornithology. The phillipsi which is confined to the M e x i c o analysis of the seven distinct coastal scrub of Yucatan. Robert Zink and Rachelle forms of the species suggests that Blackwell have analysed the there are really four different A new form of Scaly-throated mitochondrial DNA (mt DNA) species, with the populations of Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia

14 COTINGA 8 NBC Conservation Award variegaticeps (Furnariidae) contemporaneous with R. terrisi, moving Parula superciliosa and from western Mexico (Kevin the Maroon-faced Parrot, but the P. gutturalis to Vermivora; Winker). conversion of pinyon-juniper merging Parula with Dendroica; A new subspecies A. v. schaldachi woodland to desert scrub at the moving Microligea, Xenoligea and is described from Guerrero, end of the Pleistocene probably Granatellus from Parulinae to western Mexico. hastened the species’ . Thraupinae; moving A new parrot from the Skeletal characteristics and Rhodinocichla from Thraupinae Pleistocene era (Amadeo M. the genera of warblers (J. Dan to Parulinae. Rea). Webster). • Distributed by: Robert W. A new Rhynchopsitta parrot has The author studied 98 species of Dickerman, Museum of been identified from the late 24 genera of Parulinae. Twenty- Southwestern Biology, Depart­ Pleistocene deposits of the San four skeletal characters proved ment of Biology, University of Josecito Cave, Nuevo León, useful for genetic distinctions, New Mexico, Albuquerque, north-east Mexico. The Large­ leading to the following sug­ New Mexico 87131 USA +(505) billed Parrot R. phillipsi was gested taxonomic revisions: 277-3315.

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A relatively short period • Fitzpatrick, J. W. & Stotz, D. F. species and new subspecies of separated the publication of A new species of tyrannulet antbird (Aves: Formicariidae) Cotinga 7 and 8, and this issue (Phylloscartes) from the Andean with a revision of Cercomacra again comes hot-on-the-heels of foothills of Peru and Bolivia. tyrannina in northeastern South the last. Accordingly, there has The authors describe Cinnamon­ America. been comparatively little new faced Tyrannulet Phylloscartes An hitherto undescribed taxonomic data published parkeri from the Andean foothills population of antbirds in the recently. All items of interest are of south-east Peru and one Cercomacra tyrannina / Cotinga being held over for 10. specimen from adjacent Bolivia. nigrescens complex sympatric This Taxonomic Roundup The new form is most closely with C. tyrannina has been concentrates on a landmark related to Rufous-lored discovered north of Manaus, publication, which contains much Tyrannulet Phylloscartes Brazil. This population is of relevance to avian taxonomy in flaviventris. considered to be conspecific with the Neotropical region. Cercomacra tyrannina laeta, but Ornithological Monographs • Krabbe, N. & Schulenberg, T. S. should be elevated to species No. 48 ‘Studies in Neotropical Species limits and natural history level due to its sympatry with C. Ornithology Honoring Ted of Scytalopus tyrannina. The ‘new’ species Parker’ was recently (1997) (Rhinocryptidae), with descrip­ contains three subspecies: published by the American tions of the Ecuadorian taxa, Cercomacra laeta laeta in Ornithologists’ Union. Edited by including three new species. extreme south-east Amazonia; C. Van Remsen, this volume The taxonomy of this genus is laeta sabinoi in north-east. Brazil contains several papers which and (described in this paper) C. describe new taxa, re-define critically analysed. Full descriptions are given for the laeta waimiri from eastern species limits or analyse Roraima and the Manaus area. systematics within a group of Ecuadorian taxa, along with bird taxa. As such, it is of details of their biology, plus notes on all extralimital forms. The • Capparella, A. P., Rosenberg, immense interest to all G. H. & Cardiff, S. W. Neotropical ornithologists. Full new taxonomy proposed by the A new subspecies of Percnostola ordering details are appended authors increases the number of rufifrons (Formicaridae) from below and papers of major species in the genus from 11 to 37 (2–3 unnamed). New species northeastern Amazonian Peru, relevance are listed below with a with a revision of the rufifrons short précis of their abstracts. described are: Choco Tapaculo Scytalopus chacoensis (from the complex. • Graves, G. R. Colorimetric and Choco of north-west Ecuador); Percnostola rufifrons jensoni, a morphometric gradients in Ecuadorian Tapaculo S. robbinsi new subspecies of Black-headed Colombian populations of Dusky (from the humid foothills of Antbird, is described from north­ Antbirds (Cercomacra tyrannina), Azuay and El Oro, south-west east Peru on the north bank of with a description of a new Ecuador) and Tapaculo the , east of its species Cercomacra parkeri. S. parkeri (from the temperate confluence with the Napo. It is zone of southern Ecuador). suggested that the complex Graves describes Parker’s contains two pairs of subspecies Antbird Cercomacra parkeri • Remsen, Jr., J. V. A new genus which should be ranked as from the western slope of the for Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak. species: P. rufifrons rufifrons Cordillera Occidental and A new genus Parkerthraustes is and P. rufifrons subcristata (= P. northern and eastern slopes of ru fifrons, the Black-headed the Cordillera Central of the created for this species which is enigmatic in its relationships. Antbird with two subspecies Colombian Andes (females), with rufifrons and subcristata) and P. males provisionally assigned to • Bierregaard, Jr., R. O., Cohn- rufifrons minor and P. rufifrons this taxon also occurring on the jensoni (= P. minor, the Amazonas western slope of the Cordillera Haft, M. & Stotz, D. F. Cryptic biodiversity: an overlooked Antbird, with two subspecies Oriental. minor and jensoni).

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• Isler, M. L., Isler, P. R. & Phrygilus alaudinus • Vuilleumier, F. Status and Whitney, B. M. Biogeography and (Emberizidae) from the upper distribution of Asthenes anthoides systematics of the Thamnophilus Huallaga Valley, Peru. (Furnariidae), a species endemic punctatus (Thamnophilidae) The paper describes new to Fuego–Patagonia, with notes complex. subspecies for White-browed on its systematic relationships The authors contend that the Antbird Myrmoborus leucophrys and conservation. Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus koenigorum and Band-tailed- The author concludes that this punctatus complex is best treated Sierra-Finch Phrygilus alaudinus taxon (considered a subspecies by by recognising at least six, and bracki from this ecologically some authorities) is a valid possibly eight species: Western isolated area of Peru. species. Slaty-Antshrike T. atrinucha (including T. a. atrinucha and T. • Robbins, M. B. & Parker, T. A. • Whitney, B. M. & Pacheco, J. F. a. gorgonae); Guianan Slaty- Voice and taxonomy of Behaviour, vocalisations, and Antshrike T. punctatus (including Caprimulgus (rufus) otiosus relationships of some T. p. interpositus and T. p. (Caprimulgidae), with a re- Myrmotherula antwrens punctatus); (Marañon Slaty- evaluation of Caprimulgus (Thamnophilidae) in eastern Antshrike) T. (p.) ? leucogaster; subspecies. Brazil, with comments on the (Huallaga Slaty-Antshrike) T. (p.) ? The authors consider the St. ‘Plain-winged’ group. huallagae: N atterer’s Slaty- Lucian Nightjar C. otiosus to be Salvadori’s M. minor, Unicolored Antshrike T. stictocephalus conspecific with Rufous Nightjar M. unicolor, Alagoas M. snowi (including T. s. stictocephalus and C. rufus with the following and Band-tailed M. urosticta T. s. parkeri [described in the subspecies arrangement for C. Antwrens are analysed in detail, appendix]); Bolivian Slaty- rufus: otiosus (St. Lucia); rufus with the authors elevating M. Antshrike T. sticturus; Planalto (north-west Brazil, southern snowi to specific rank. They also Slaty-Antshrike T. pelzelni and Venezuela, east through the analyse intrageneric relation­ Sooretama Slaty-Antshrike T. Guianas, and south to south of ships within Myrmotherula. ambiguus. the Rio Amazonas) and rutilus (south Brazil, north Argentina, • Zimmer, K. J. Species limits in • Marantz, C. A. Geographic east Bolivia). Cranioleuca vulpina. variation of plumage patterns in the woodcreeper genus Dendro- The author concludes that Rusty- ■ Robbins, M. B., Rosenberg, G. backed Spinetail C. vulpina colaptes (Dendrocolaptidae). H., Molina, F. S. & Jacome, M. A. actually comprises two species- The author suggests that Taxonomy and nest description of level taxa: a wide-ranging approximately 1/5 of the the Tumbes Swallow ( polytypic species (C. vulpina) of subspecies of the five members of [albilinea] stolzmanni). várzea and riverine forests of the the genus are invalid, following Newly acquired data on the , and a more cladistic and phenetic sampling biology of this taxon show specialised form (C. vulpecula) of of a suite of 21 plumage Tachycineta stolzmanni to be a successional habitats on islands characteristics. valid species. of the Amazon and its major white-water tributaries. • Marín, M. Species limits and • Schulenberg, T. S. & Parker, distribution of some New World T. A. A new species of tyrant- Copies of Ornithological spinetailed swifts (Chaetura flycatcher (Tyrannidae: Monograph No. 48 can be spp.). Tolmomyias) from the western obtained from Max C. Thompson, The author considers Chaetura Amazon Basin. Assistant to the Treasurer, andrei an invalid taxon; he The authors describe Orange­ Department of Biology, South­ recommends the taxa C. andrei eyed Flycatcher Tolmomyias western College, 100 College St., meridionalis and C. chapmani traylori from the western Winfield, Kansas 67156, USA. viridipennis be elevated to Amazon basin. The species occurs Price of the monograph is $49.95 species rank (they are more in the subcanopy of river-edge prepaid. Add $4.00 for handling closely related to C. pelagica than and várzea, and is syntopic with and shipping within the USA, to the species in which they are three other members of its genus, and $7.00 for all other countries. currently placed). T. assimilis, T. poliocephalus and Cheques payable to the American T. flaviventris. Also, the new Ornithologists’ Union: major • O’Neill, J. P. & Parker, T. A. species appears to be parapatric credit cards are accepted. New subspecies of Myrmoborus with T. sulphurescens insignis. leucophrys (Formicaridae) and

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A new Herpsilochmus antwren localities) and Kapawi Ecological although the limited overlap with from north-east Peru and Reserve, Loreto, Ecuador. this taxon is a function of high south-east Ecuador Herpsilochmus gentryi, the habitat mosaicism in the general Bret Whitney and Jose Alvarez Ancient An twren, is closely area. This may have implications Alonso have described a new related to H. stictocephalus, for the species' conservation, canopy-dwelling Herpsilochmus Todd's Antwren of the Gui ana n because, although co mmon within from the nutrient-poor, sandy soil shield. It is, however, sympatric its specialised habitat, the forests of Amazonian Peru (m any with H. stictu.rus dugandi, heterogeneity of the terra firm. e

10 COTINGA 10 Taxonomic Round-up landscape is such that the Arremon semitorquatus mountains on both sides of the species' chosen habitat is Swainson, 1837. Bull. Brit. Apurimac river in the depart­ nevertheless quite rare. Orn. Club 117: 294-298. ments of Cuzco, Apurimac and Whitney, B. M. & Alonso, J. A. Ayacucho. The new subspecies is (1998) A new Herpsilochmus A new subspecies of Yellow­ principally distinguished by its antwren (Aves: headed Parrot from nort hern whitish rectrices. Thamnophilidae) from north­ Honduras Schuchmann, K.-1. & Zii chner, ern Amazonian Peru and Sebastian Lousada and Steve T. (1997) Coeligena uiolifer adjacent Ecuador: the role of Howell have described Amazona albicaudata (Aves, edaphic heterogeneity of terra oratrix hondurensis from the Trochilidae): a new humining­ firme forest. Auh 115: 559-576. Sul a Valley of Honduras. The bird subspecies from the AOU (1983) Chech-list of North southern Peruvian Andes. Orn. Arremon semitorquatus is a valid American birds considered the Neotropical 8: 247-253. species Sula Valley birds to be Yellow­ Marcos Raposo and Ricardo crowned Parrots A. ochrocephala, Reappraisal of the taxonomy of Parrini have expanded on but the authors contend that it is Brazilian populations of previous work on the Pectoral probably more approprate to Pyrrhura leucotis Sparrow Arremon taciturnu.s assign them to A. oratrix, As an adjunct to an ecological co mplex taxonomy (see Cotinga 8: although other taxonomic study of Pfrimer's Conure 14), and concluded that A. t. arrange ments for this complex Pyrrhura (leu.cotis) pfrimeri, semitorquatus, the Half-collared should be considered. Olmos et al. consider the Sparrow, found in Brazil from Rio Lousada, S. A. & Howell, S. N. taxonomic status of the Brazilian de J aneiro south to Rio Grande G. (1997) Amazona oratrix populations of White-eared do Sul, is a valid species. Not only hondu.rensis: a new subspecies Conure P leucotis. All three are there significant morphologi­ of parrot from the Sula Valley allopatric taxa-P leu.cotis from cal differences between A. of northern Honduras. Bull. southern Bahia to Rio de J aneiro semitorquatus and A. taciturnus, Brit. Orn. Club 117: 205-209. and Minas Gerais, P griseipectus but the hitherto perceived area of from three montane isolates in intergradation between the two A new subspecies of leaftosser Ceara south to Pernambuco, and taxa does not exist. from north-east Bolivia P pfrimeri from the Serra Geral, Raposo, M. A. & Parrini, R. Andrew Kratter has described a Goias-are considered by the (1997) On the validity of the new subspecies of Grey-throated authors to be worthy of specific Half-collared Sparrow Leaftosser. Sclerurus albigularis status based on the differing hempffi is known from the morphological characters and Serrania Huanchaca, which habitat requirements of the three straddles the border between taxa. north-east Santa Cruz, Bolivia Olmos, F., Martuscelli, P. & and west Mato Grosso, Brazil. Silva e Silva, R. (1997) The newly described subspecies is Distribution and dry-season distinctly paler and occurs at ecology of Pfrimer's Conure lower elevations than other Pyrrhura pfrimeri, with a subspecies of S. albigularis. reappraisal of Brazilian !(ratter, A. (1997) A new Pyrrhura "leucotis". Orn. subspecies of Scleruru.s Neotropical 8: 121-132. albigu.laris (Gray-throated Leaftosser) from northeastern More studies on Stripe-headed Bolivia, with notes on geo­ Tanager taxonomy graphical variation. Orn. Co mplementing the study by Neotropical 8: 23-30. Nedra Klein cited in Cotinga 8: 14, 0. Garrido et al. have A new hummingbird subspecies reappraised the taxonomy of from the Peruvian Andes Spindalis zena. They co nclude Karl Schuchmann and Thomas that the complex co mprises a Ziichner have described a new superspecies with four Half-collared Sparrow Arremon subspecies of Violet-throated allospecies: S. nigricephala of semitorquotus, Fazenda Serra do Mar, Starfrontlet Coeligena uiolifer. C. Jamaica; S. portoricensis of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 1997 ( Rob u. albicau.data is restricted to the Puerto Rico; S. dominicensis of W ill iams)

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Hispaniola and Gonave Island; exclusively on the islands of the hummingbirds (Aves: and a polytypic S. zena repre­ Galapagos and on Malpelo island, Trochilidae). 1. Characterisation sented by five subspecies: S. z. Colombia should be recognised as of Calypte anna x Stellula zena in some islands of the a separate species, the Nazca calliope and the possible effects of northern and central Bahamas, S. Booby. egg volume on hybridisation z. townsendi confined to Grand Pitman, R. L. & Jehl, J. R. potential. Proc. Biol. Soc. Bahama, the Abacos, and Green (1998) Geographic variation Washington 109: 755-763. Turtle Cay, S. z. pretrei in Cuban and reassessment of species [Plumage pattern and colour and territory, S. z. salvini confined to limits in the "Masked Boobies" external morphology of two the island of Grand Cayman, and of the eastern Pacific Ocean. specimens of this hybrid are S. z. benedicti confined to Wilson Bull. 110: 155-170. discussed. The parental species Cozumel island, east of the are Anna's Hummingbird Calypte Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Lophornis melaniae is not a valid anna and Calliope Hummingbird Garrido, 0. H., Parkes, K. C., taxon Stellula calliope.] Reynard, G. B. & Sutton, R. Michael Walters has discovered (1997) Taxonomy of the Stripe­ that Lophornis melaniae Graves, G. R. (1996) Diagnoses of headed Tanager, genus probably represents aberrant or hybrid hummingbirds (Aves: Spindalis (Aves: Thraupidae) faded specimens of Rufous­ Trochilidae). 2. Hybrid origin of of the West Indies. Wilson Bull. crested Coquette L. delattrei. Eriocnemis soderstromi Butler. 109: 561-594. Walters, M. (1997) On the Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 109: identity of Lophornis melaniae 764-769. Revised taxonomic treat­ Floericke (Trochilidae). Bull. [E. soderstromi represents an ment for the Palm Brit. Orn. Club 117: 235-236. intrageneric hybrid between Orlando Garrido et al. have Black-breasted E. reappraised the relationships Is Tachira Emerald a species? nigriventris and Sapphire-vented between the various taxa Andre Weller and Karl Puffleg E. luciani.] comprising the Palm Crow Schuchmann have critically palmarum and conclude examined the holotype of Graves, G. R. (1997) Diagnoses of that it should again be considered Amazilia distans, the Tachira hybrid hummingbirds (Aves: as two species: Corvus Emerald, and hypothesise that it Trochilidae). 3. Parentage of palmarum, the Hispaniolan Palm is a hybrid between White­ Lesbia ortoni Lawrence. Proc. Crow and C. minutus, the Cuban chinned Sapphire Hylocharis Biol. Soc. Washington 110: 314- Palm Crow. cyanus and Glittering-throated 319. Garrido, 0. H., Reynard, G. B. Emerald Amazilia fimbriata. [Lesbia ortoni represents a & Kirkconnell, A. (1997) Is the Weller, A. & Schuchmann, K­ hybrid between Black-tailed Palm Crow, Corvus palmarum L. (1997) The hybrid origin of a Trainbearer L. victoriae and (Aves: ), a monotypic Venezuelan trochilid, Purple-backed Thornbill species? Orn. Neotropical 8: Amazilia distans Wetmore & Ramphomicron microrhynchum.] 15-21. Phelps 1956. Orn. Neotropical 8: 107-112. Graves, G. R. (1997) Diagnoses of New taxonomic treatment for hybrid hummingbirds (Aves: Masked Booby populations in Several hybrid hummingbirds Trochilidae). 4. Hybrid origin of the eastern Pacific Ocean unmasked Calothorax decoratus Gould. Robert Pitman and Joseph Jehl Gary Graves has undertaken Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 110: have examined the various forms analyses of various hummingbird 320-325. [C. decoratus is of Sula dactylatra which occur in taxa and recently published some confirmed as a hybrid between the eastern Pacific, and consider of his findings as below. Gorgeted Woodstar Acestrura that the the orange-billed form S. heliodor and White-bellied (d). granti which nests almost Graves, G. R. & Newfield, N. L. Woodstar A. mulsant.] ( 1996) Diagnoses of hybrid

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A new rhinocryptid from Remsen. The two undescribed the correct name for this southern Brazil subspecies referred to in the spectacular bird under the articles Marcos Bornschein et al. have previous paper have now been of the International Code of described a new Scytalopus described as C. f. fitzpatricki from Zoological Nomenclature is tapaculo from the metropolitan the isolated Cordillera Macropsalis forcipata (Nitsch district of Curitiba, Paraná, Vilcabamba, dpto. Cuzco, Peru 1840). southern Brazil. Scytalopus and C. f. gravesi from dpto. Puno, • Pacecho, J. F. & Whitney, B. M. iraiensis, the Tail-grass Wetland Peru south to dpto. Cochabamba, (1998) Correction of the specific Tapaculo inhabits wetlands where Bolivia. name of Long-trained Nightjar. the vegetation is high and forms • Remsen, J. V. & Brumfield, R. T. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 118: 259– dense thickets of shading grass (1998) Two new subspecies of 260. leaves and sedges. The new Cinnycerthia fulva (Aves: species is similar to males of Troglodytidae) from the A new subspecies of Berylline Mouse-coloured Tapaculo S. southern Andes. Proc. Biol. Soc. Hummingbird speluncae in coloration, but differs Wash. 111: 1008–1015. André Weller has analysed from that species in possessing a morphological variation within blackish back and grey belly, Spotted Antpitta: species the rather than being a uniform grey. status for one of its (recently Amazilia beryllina and has Vocalisations are also signifi­ rediscovered) subspecies? ascribed A. sumichrasti (Salvin cantly different. Unfortunately, Sjoerd Maijer has rediscovered 1891) as a subspecies of A. the new species is already gravely Hylopezus (macularius) auricula- beryllina. This taxon, found in the endangered as all three areas in ris c. 10 km from the type-locality mountains of extreme south-east which it has been located are in northern Bolivia. He recom­ Oaxaca and southern and north- threatened by whole-scale habitat mends species rank for auricularis central Chiapas, has had a modification. on the basis of its distinctive capricious taxonomic history, but • Bornschein, R. M., Reinert, B. plumage (including a black mask) the author’s analysis places it L. & Pichorim, P. (1998) and unique song, as well as within A. beryllina. Descrição, ecologia e differences in habitat. He has • Weller, A.-A. (1998) On types of conservação de urn novo proposed the vernacular name trochilids in the Natural Scytalopus (Rhinocryptidae) do Masked Antpitta. History Museum, Tring. 1. sul do Brasil, com comentarios • Maijer, S. (1998) Rediscovery of Amazilia sumichrasti Salvin, in sobre a morfologia da familia. Hylopezus (macularius) relation to morphology and Ararajuba 6: 3–36. auricularis: distinctive song biogeography within the A. and habitat indicate species beryllina complex. Bull. Brit. Two new subspecies of rank. Auk 115: 1072–1073. Orn. Club 118: 249–256. Cinnycerthia fulva Cotinga 6 reported on a taxonomic Correction of the specific reappraisal of Andean name of Long-trained Nightjar Cinnycerthia wrens, undertaken Fernando Pacecho and Bret by R. T. Brumfield and Van Whitney have demonstrated that

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A new species of antwren from and Gary Stiles. The new taxon is species inhabits humid scrub on the western Am azonian restricted to very wet cloud forest both sides of the steep canyon lowlands of Ecuador and Peru at 1400–2000 m on the Pacific formed where the río Montero Niels Krabbe et al. have described slope of the western Andes of intersects the eastern Andean Brown-backed Antwren central Colombia south to north­ ridge. The Andean brushfinches Myrmotherula fjeldsaai, a close west Ecuador. The new species is consist of two main groups relative of Stipple-throated vocally distinct and a number of comprising grey-breasted and Antwren M. haematonota. The consistent morphological yellow-breasted birds (although new species differs in both sexes differences have also been noted. these colours may not reflect from M. h. haematonota in that it It appears to be vocally most evolutionary trajectories), and has a brown instead of red back. similar to nominate Northern Black-spectacled Brush-finch is New distributional data have Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium g. gnoma intermediate in some respects demonstrated that the two and the form costaricanum, which between these two groups. The populations formerly included in has been variously treated as a new species’ principal M. haematonota (nominate M. h. subspecies of gnoma or, more distinguishing morphological haematonota and M. fjeldsaai) usually, Andean Pygmy-Owl G. feature is the entirely black meet north of the río Marañón, jardinii. The authors further orbital area. between the ríos Napo and consider that costaricanum, as a • Valqui, T. & Fjeldså, J. (1999) Pastaza, with no apparent sister taxon of gnoma, deserves New brush-finch Atlapetes from physical barrier between them. specific recognition (under the Peru. Ibis 141: 194–198. • Krabbe, N, Isler, M. L., Isler, P. English name Costa Rican Pygmy- R., Whitney, B. M., Alvarez, J. Owl) based on dramatic ecological Species lim its in the genus A. & Greenfield, P. J. (1999) A differences as well as morphologi­ A t la p e t e s new species in the cal and vocalisation differences. Jaime García-Moreno and Jon Myrmotherula haematonota • Robbins, M. B. & Stiles, F. G. Fjeldså have reappraised the superspecies (Aves: (1999) A new species of pygmy- status of many of the taxa within Thamnophilidae) from the owl (Strigidae: Glaucidium) Atlapetes, using mitochondrial western Amazonian lowlands from the Pacific slope of the DNA techniques. The data of Ecuador and Peru. Wilson northern Andes. Auk 116: 305– collected suggest three principal Bull. 111: 157–165. 315. branches, comprising the southern (Bolivian and north­ A new species of pygmy-owl A new species of A t l a p e t e s west Argentine), central (south from the Pacific slope of the brushfinch from Peru and central Peruvian) and northern Andes Thomas Valqui and Jon Fjeldså northern / western species. The Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl have described Black-spectacled data also demonstrate that many Glaucidium nubicola has recently Brush-finch Atlapetes melanops subspecies are genetically more been described by Mark Robbins from central Peru, where the new divergent than sympatric species.

1 Male (left) and female Araripe Manakin Antilophia bokermanni ( G a llie u C o e lh o )

2 Rufous-crowned Greenlet Hylophilus poicilotis ( t o p ) a n d H. amaurocephalus (painting by Jorge B. Nacinovic. E -m a il: nacinovic@ pontocom .com .br )

3 Brown-backed Antwren M yrmotherula fjeldsaai male type (top), female (bottom ) (painting by Jon Fjeldså, reproduced w ith kind permission of W ilson Ornithological Society)

4 Black-spectacled Brushfinch Atlapetes melanops (painting by Jon Fjeldså)

5 & 6 Green-cheeked Parakeet Pyrrhura molinae flavoptera (Om ar Rocha)

7 Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium nubicola (painting by Tracy Pedersen, reproduced w ith kind permission of the American O rnithologists’ Union and M ark B. Robbins)

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They suggest the following A distinctive new subspecies of • Garrido, O. H. & Reynard, G. B. classification: Green-cheeked Parakeet from (1998) Is the Greater Antillean B o liv ia Nightjar, Caprimulgus • Atlapetes rufinucha (including cubanensis (Aves: rufinucha and carrikeri) as Sjoerd Maijer et al. have described Pyrrhura molinae flavoptera, Caprimulgidae), a composite Bolivian Rufescent-naped Brush­ species? Orn. Neotrop. 9: 1–12. finch — southern branch which, as the scientific name • Atlapetes latinuchus (including suggests, has striking yellow elaeoprorus, simplex, caucae, marginal coverts along the A m olecular study of the spodionotus, comptus, latinuchus, leading edge of the wing-bend. turcas and huet-huets chugurensis and baroni) as The new subspecies is located in Terry Chesser has published a Northern Rufous-naped Brush­ the arid rain-shadow valleys in study into the molecular finch — central branch southern dpto. La Paz, Bolivia. systematics of the rhinocryptid • Atlapetes rufigenis as Rufous­ The authors discuss the genus Pteroptochus. Phylogenetic eared Brushfinch — central importance of this area to the analysis revealed that P. branch evolution of Andean dry forest castaneus, P. tarnii and P. • Atlapetes forbesi as Apurímac birds. megapodius constitute separate Brushfinch — central branch • Maijer, S., Herzog, S. K., lineages, with P. castaneus and P • Atlapetes schistaceus (including Kessler, M., Friggens, M. T. & tarnii as sister taxa, and P. castaneifrons, tamae, schistaceus Fjeldså, J. (1998) A distinctive megapodius sister to these. The and taczanowskii) as Slaty Brush­ new subspecies of the Green­ first two appear to be separate finch — central branch cheeked Parakeet (Pyrrhura species under both the biological • Atlapetes melanops as Black- molinae, Psittacidae) from and phylogenetic species concepts. spectacled Brushfinch — northern Bolivia. Orn. Neotrop. 9: 185– • Chesser, R. T. (1999) Molecular branch 191. systematics of the rhinocryptid • Atlapetes terborghi as genus Pteroptochus. Condor Vilcabamba Brushfinch — Rufous-crowned Greenlet 101: 439–446. northern branch Hylophilus poicilotis is t w o • Atlapetes canigenis as Grey s p e c ie s M o n t a n e Troglodytes w r e n s Brushfinch — northern branch Marcos Raposo et al. reconfirm the Nathan Rice et al. have studied • Atlapetes melanolaemus as elevation of H. p. amaurocephalus phylogenetic patterns in montane Black-faced Brushfinch — to species status. Their analysis Troglodytes wrens, based on northern branch was based on the study of mitochondrial DNA studies, and museum specimens and suggest a new hypothesis of However, the authors add the vocalisations in the field. While relationships within the group. caveat that they have not studied amaurocephalus is found in Winter Wren T. troglodytes and the grey forms of Ecuador and north-east Brazil south to Timberline Wren Thryorchilus Peru, nor the richly coloured taxa southern Bahia, poecilotis occurs browni are distantly related to from the northern Andes, so are south into east Paraguay and the remainder of Troglodytes. The not formally proposing a new north-east Argentina. latter grouping subdivides into a sequence. • Raposo, M., Parrini, R. & tropical montane group and a • García-Moreno, J. & Fjeldså, J. Napoli, M. (1998) Taxonomia, northern / lowland group that Re-evaluation of species limits morfometria e bioacústica do includes the northernmost two in the genus Atlapetes based on grupa específico Hylophilus montane taxa, T. rufociliatus and mtDNA sequence data. Ibis poicilotis / H. amaurocephalus T. brunneicollis. The resurrection 141: 199–207. (Aves, Vireonidae). Ararajuba of the genus Nannus for Winter 6: 87–109. Wren is also proposed. Antilophia bokermanni f o r m a lly • Rice, N. H., Peterson, A. T. & d e s c r ib e d Greater Antillean Nightjar is Escalona-Segura, G. (1999) Araripe Manakin Antilophia tw o species Phylogenetic patterns in bokermanni has been described Orlando Garrido and George montane Troglodytes wrens. formally in the Brazilian journal Reynard have analysed the taxa Condor 101: 446–451. Ararajuba, although the species within this complex, particularly had already been named (with their vocalisations, and concluded accompanying photographs) in that two species are involved: the Jornal do Commercio Hispaniolan Nightjar (published in Recife), a Brazilian Caprimulgus eckmani and Cuban newspaper. Nightjar C. cubanensis, including • Coelho, G. & Silva, W. (1998) A the recently described race new species oí Antilophia insulaepinorum in the Isle of (Passeriformes: Pipridae) from Youth (formerly the Isle of Pines). Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil. Ararajuba 6: 81–84.

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A new antpitta from the and draw the conclusion that Ecuadorian Andes hybrid origin is the most likely Niels Krabbe et al. have described explanation. Jocotoco Antpitta Grallaria • Joseph, L., Slikas, B., Rankin- ridgelyi from the super-humid Baransky, R., Bazartseren, B., upper subtropical forest of Alpers, D. & Gilbert, A. E. Zamora–Chinchipe in southern (1999) DNA evidence Ecuador. The highest elevation at concerning the identities of which the birds were recorded Crax viridirostris Sclater, 1875, corresponded to the upper limit of and C. estudilloi Allen, 1977. growth, at c. 2680 m. Jocotoco Antpitta Grallaria ridgelyi Orn. Neotrop. 10: 129–144. The authors speculate that the (Doug W eschler / VIREO) species may be present further A new subspecies of Rufous­ north, in Podocarpus National intermediate characters are tailed Hummingbird from Park (its present range lies occasionally found), and no Colombia mainly outside the park evidence of clinal change from Weller & Schuchmann analysed boundaries), and also in northern north to south. A number of morphological variation within Peru, and perhaps even further characters suggest that size is the species (currently comprising north in Ecuador, to Volcán positively correlated with latitude two subspecies A. t. tzacatl and A. Sumaco, and as far south as the north and south of the equator. t. jucunda) and concluded that central Andes of Peru. The species The authors conclude that three another taxon, A. t. handleyi is considered part of a biological species are involved: C. (Wetmore, 1963) is a valid containing other large lutosus (Guadalupe Caracara, subspecies of A. tzacatl, the taxon such as G. nuchalis (syntopic with from Guadalupe, Mexico) and two A. t. fuscicaudata (Fraser, 1840) is the new species), G. hypoleuca, G. mainland forms, C. cheriway also valid, and they also describe watkinsi and G. ruficapilla. The (Northern Caracara, from the A. t. brehmi, a new subspecies idiosyncratic vernacular name USA south to the Amazon and from Nariño, Colombia. highlights the work of ‘Fundación Peru) and C. plancus (Southern • Weller, A-A. & Schuchmann, K- Jocotoco’, a non-profit making Caracara, from south-east Brazil L. (1999) Geographical NGO that has purchased land and Bolivia south to Tierra del variation in the southern around the type-locality, and Fuego), which do not appear to distributional range of the which has also purchased land in overlap in western South Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, other critically important bird America. Amazilia tzacatl De la Llave, sites. • Dove, C. J. & Banks, R. C. 1832: a new subspecies from • Krabbe, N., Agro, D. J., Rice, N. (1999) A taxonomic study of Nariño, southwestern H., Jacome, M., Navarette, L. & Crested Caracaras Colombia. J. Orn. 140: 457–466. Sornoza, F.M. (1999) A new (Falconidae). Wilson Bull. 111: species of antpitta 330–339. Handbook of Birds of the World (Formicariidae: Grallaria) from Vol. 5 the southern Ecuadorian Crax viridirostris Sclater, 1875 This landmark publication has Andes. Auk 116: 882–890. and C. estudilloi Allen, 1977: reached groups such as owls, the identities of two curassows , potoos and swifts, and Caracara plancus is three unravelled by DNA evidence provides the first contemporary species Leo Joseph et al. have analysed portrayal of all the hummingbirds New research on Crested the single specimens of these two in one easily accessible tome. The Caracara Caracara plancus taxa, which both possess a taxonomic status of the suggests that three taxa should greenish cere, a unique hummingbird taxa, in particular, be recognised at species level. characteristic within the genus means that it should be an Carla Dove and Richard Banks Crax. They found that the mtDNA important reference for all studied plumage characters and sequences of estudilloi resembled researchers interested in measurements of 392 specimens those of Blue-billed Curassow C. Neotropical birds. from across the species’ range and alberti and those of viridirostris • del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & found only limited evidence, from resembled those of Yellow- Sargatal, J. (eds.) (1999) localities close to the Amazon, of a knobbed Curassow C. daubentoni. Handbook of the birds of the contact zone (where birds with The authors speculate on the world, 5. Barcelona: Lynx possible origin of these specimens Edicions.

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A new subspecies of Greenish named species are considered to A new taxonomic treatment of Puffleg form a superspecies, while Green-bellied Hummingbird, Researchers had previously noted tyrianthina and iracunda including a new subspecies the relatively distinct population represent sister species, which André Weller has reviewed of Greenish Puffleg exhibit plesiomorphic characters distribution and geographical aureliae in south-east Ecuador, that link Metallura with its sister variation within principally in the Cordillera de genus Chalcostigma. Furthermore, (=Amazilia) viridigaster, hitherto Cutucú, Morona-Santiago, and the disjunct distribution of similar considered to comprise four Cordillera del Condor, Zamora– phenotypes and progression of subspecies, viridigaster, Chinchipe. This population morphological characters suggest cupreicauda, duidae and laireti. hitherto has not been named, a that allopatric speciation has Evidence is available for the situation now resolved by Karl occurred relatively recently, existence of two subspecifically Schuchmann et al. Haplophaedia presumably due to habitat distinct Andean populations of S. aureliae cutucuensis appears to be changes wrought by Late Pliocene viridigaster, which points to the restricted to these two areas, and and Pleistocene vicissitudes. separation of S. viridigaster principally differs from related • Heindl, M. & Schuchmann, K- (including viridigaster and iodura) taxa in its very heavy greyish- L. (1998) Biogeography, and S. cupreicauda (including all white underparts scaling. The geographical variation and other taxa) as allospecies, and the holotype was collected at 2100 m taxonomy of the Andean presence of a new subspecies of in the central Cutucú Mountains. hummingbird genus Metallura the latter, S. c. pacaraimae, in the The authors thoroughly analyse GOULD, 1847. J. Orn. 139: Sierra de Pacaraima, south the mensural and morphometric 425–473. Bolivar, Venezuela. The author characters of various conducts a thorough biogeographi- Haplophaedia taxa. A new subspecies of Fiery Topaz cal analysis of the genus, in • Schuchmann, K.-L., Weller, A.- Da-Shih Hu et al. have analysed general, and the species group in A. & Heynen, I. (2000) hummingbird taxa within the particular. Biogeography and taxonomy of genus Topaza and concluded that • Weller, A.-A. (2000) A new the Andean hummingbird the largely accepted view that hummingbird subspecies from genus Haplophaedia Simon these taxa represent two species, southern Bolivar, Venezuela, (Aves: Trochilidae), with the Crimson T. pella and Fiery T. pyra with notes on biogeography and description of a new subspecies is correct, contra Schuchmann, taxonomy of the Saucerrotia from southern Ecuador. Orn. Ruschi and others. In addition, viridigaster–cupreicauda Anz. 39: 17–42. they describe Topaza pyra species group. Orn. Neotrop. 11: amaruni, a new subspecies from 143–154. An evaluation of the genus the ríos Napo and Corrientes in M etallu ra Amazonian Ecuador and west A new subspecies of Black and Martin Heindl & Karl Amazonian Peru. This subspecies Yellow Silky Flycatcher Schuchmann have studied the differs from the nominate in Gilbert Barrantes and Julio biogeography and taxonomy of the having more black in the tibial Sanchez have described high Andean hummingbird genus feathering. The authors conclude Phainoptila melanoxantha Metallura. Geographical variation, that additional undiscovered parkeri, a new subspecies of Black according to morphometric and populations of these species may and Yellow Silky Flycatcher, from plumage coloration characters, exist. the Cordillera de Guanacaste, was analysed, confirming the • Hu, Da-Shih, Joseph, L. & Agro, north-west Costa Rica. Males presence of nine species D. (2000) Distribution, varia­ differ from other populations, in (consisting of 15 subspecies) tion, and taxonomy of Topaza the Cordillera de Talamanca and within the genus: M. tyrianthina hummingbirds (Aves: Volcánica Central, in having a (seven subspecies are recognised Trochilidae). Orn. Neotrop. 11: wholly yellow belly (rather than within this widespread species), 123–142. grey), and the female has the M. iracunda, M. phoebe, M. breast diagnostically streaked. aeneocauda (two subspecies), M. Geographical variation within the eupogon, M. theresiae (two species is also analysed. subspecies), M. odomae, M. baroni • Barrantes, G. & Sanchez, J. E. and M. williami (four subspecies). (2000) A new subspecies of Within this grouping, the six last- Black and Yellow Silky

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Flycatcher, Phainoptila An appraisal of Chaetura swifts The valid name for Blue-winged melanoxantha, from Costa Rica. Manuel Marín has undertaken an P a rro tle t Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 120: 40– exhaustive study of this genus, Bret Whitney and Fernando 46. which is largely subdivided into Pacheco discuss the background to grey-rumped and brown-rumped the primacy of either Yellow-throated Oriole does not taxa, the former being further xanthopterygius or crassirostris to exist divisible into pale-rumped and designate the Blue-winged Josefina Barreiro and Jaime Perez grey-rumped subgroups. The Parrotlet, and detail why the del Val have analysed the type- validity of the following taxa may former should be regarded as specimen of Yellow-throated be doubtful: Chaetura spinicauda correct, according to an Interna­ Oriole Icterus xantholaemus, a fumosa, C. s. aethalea, C. s. tional Code of Zoological species described in 1918 and latirostris, C. cinereiventris Nomenclature (ICZN) ruling known only from this specimen. It pachitae and C. c. egregia, while C. concerning nomenclatural clearly shows the distinctive s. fumosa and C. c. egregia should stability. features of Saffron-cowled be elevated to species rank. • Whitney, B. M. & Pacheco, J. F. Blackbird Xanthopsar flavus, from Furthermore, C. c. pachitae is a (1999) The valid name for Blue­ south-east South America, and synonym of C. c. egregia and C. s. winged Parrotlet and the therefore Icterus xantholaemus aethalea and C. s. latirostris designation of the lectotype of should be synonymised with should be included within the Psittaculus xanthopterygius Xanthopsar flavus. nominate subspecies. The pale- Spix, 1824. Bull Brit. Orn. Club • Barreiro, J. & Perez del Val, J. rumped group comprises four 119: 211–213. (2000) Yellow-throated Oriole, allopatric or parapatric species: C. Icterus xantholaemus Gil 1918, martinica, C. spinicauda, C. a non-valid species. Bull. Brit. fumosa and C. egregia, which are Orn. Club 120: 62–63. closely interrelated and should be considered a superspecies. • Marín, M. (2000) Species limits, distribution, and biogeography of some New World gray- rumped spine-tailed swifts (Chaetura, Apodidae). Orn. Neotrop. 11: 93–107.

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A new colourful barbet from the present a reservoir of undiscov­ east and north-west Paraguay. In eastern Andes of Peru ered taxa. The region has been addition, the authors describe John O’Neill and others have proposed as a protected area; Herpsilochmus sellowi, Caatinga described a striking new Capito whatever develops with regard to Antwren, which as the vernacular barbet from the isolated cloud formal nature park / reserve status, name suggests, reflects the forest adjacent to the east bank of the cloud forests would receive species’ habitat within the well- the río Cushabatay, near legal protection as catchment defined caatinga biome of interior Contaman, Loreto Department, forests. Brazil. The authors suggest that Peru. Capito wallacei, the Scarlet- • O’Neill, J. P„ Lane, D. F„ the vernacular name for H. banded Barbet was only located Kratter, A. W., Capparella, A. P. pileatus be changed to Bahia on a relatively flat plateau & Joo, C. F. (2000) A striking Antwren, indicative of this taxon’s cloaked in cloud forest. The new species of barbet restricted distribution in the extremely humid conditions (Capitoninae: Capito) from the humid Atlantic Forest of this part produce dense clouds, even in the eastern Andes of Peru. Auk 117: of north-east Brazil, from dry season, and the species’ 569–577. Salvador south to c. 17°S. microhabitat is characterised by • Whitney, B. M., Pacheco, J. F, short trees covered with T h e Herpsilochmus pileatus Buzzetti, D. R. C. & Parrini, R. epiphytes, and a spongy cover of complex revisited (2000) Systematic revision and mosses on the forest floor. The Bret Whitney and colleagues have biogeography of the barbet has not been found in drier analysed taxa within this Herpsilochmus pileatus forest below 1250 m. The authors grouping and concluded that the complex, with description of a speculate the presence of Gilded traditional H. pileatus complex new species from northeastern Barbet Capito auratus, in this comprises three species-level taxa. Brazil. Auk 117: 869–891. drier forest, may restrict Scarlet- True H. pileatus is confined to banded Barbet to cloud forest southern coastal Bahia, Brazil. A new subspecies of Emerald above 1250 m. The entire This taxon’s closest relative is H. T o u c a n e t speculated range for the new atricapillus, Black-capped Kevin Winker has described a species experiences very little Antwren, a much more wide- new subspecies of the widespread human activity and the biologi­ ranging species, in much of Emerald Toucanet, from Sierra de cally little-known headwater central and eastern Brazil, east Los Tuxtlas, in south Veracruz, regions of the río Cushabatay may Bolivia, north-west Argentina and Mexico. Aulacorhynchus prasinus

Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei by Daniel F. Lane, Caatinga Antwren Herpsilochmus sellowi by Daniel F. Lane, reproduced with kind permission from The Auk reproduced with kind permission from The Auk

5 C o tin g a 1 5 Taxonomic Roundup warneri is readily distinguished • Zimmer, K. J. & Whittaker, A. in several vocal, plumage and from other subspecies by its (2000) The Rufous Cachalote biometric characters, while yellowish wash to the throat and (Furnariidae: Pseudoseisura) is subflava and obscura are also moderately bright yellowish band two species. Condor 102: 409– morphologically distinct, but their at the white-green interface in the 422. voice and behaviour are auricular area. . consistent with one another. • Winker, K. (2000) A new New analysis demonstrates that • Zimmer, K. J. & Whittaker, A. subspecies of toucanet Pale-tipped Tyrannulet is two (2000) Species limits in Pale- (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) from species tipped Tyrannulets (Inezia: Veracruz, Mexico. Orn. Neotrop. Elsewhere, Zimmer and Tyrannidae). Wilson Bull. 112: 11: 253–257. Whittaker demonstrate that 51–66. Inezia subflava comprises two Rufous Cacholote is two species species-level groups, based on Conservation of Schistochlamys Kevin Zimmer and Andrew biometric and plumage charac­ and Neothraupis Whittaker have demonstrated ters, as well as vocalisations and Steven Gregory has recently that the Rufous Cacholote behaviour. One group, with a proposed that the long-standing comprises two distinct species: suggested English name of Pale- tanager genera Schistochlamys Pseudoseisura cristata from the tipped Inezia Inezia caudata Reichenbach, 1850 and caatinga biome of north-east (comprising caudata and Neothraupis Hellmayr, 1936, be Brazil, and P. unirufa in the intermedia), can be considered preserved, even in the light of seasonally flooded savannas and northern / Guianan in distribution, new information concerning their deciduous woodlands of north and while the primarily Amazonian type species, in the interests of east Bolivia, north Paraguay and distributed subflava and obscura nomenclatural stability. south-west Brazil. The two taxa represent the other species-level • Gregory, S. M. S. (2000) are morphologically, vocally and grouping, which is given the Schistochlamys Reichenbach, ecologically distinct, and neither suggested English name 1850 and Neothraupis responds to playback of the others Amazonian Inezia Inezia Hellmayr, 1936 (Aves: vocalisations. subflava. The two groupings differ Passeriformes): proposed conservation. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 57: 162–165.

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A newly described flycatcher griseipectus, emma and auricula- analysis distinguished three from the cerrado of central ris. The main findings are as strongly differentiated South America follows. Prevalent taxonomy among tremblers, as well as Kevin Zimmer et al. have treating all taxa as subspecies of distinct southern (St. Lucia and described a cryptic new species of picta or leucotis is inappropriate Martinique) and northern tyrannid, Chapada Flycatcher because it concentrates on some (Dominica to Montserrat) lineages Suiriri islerorum, hitherto morphological features at the within Scaly-breasted Thrasher. confused with S. s. affinis, the expense of others. The taxa Minor geographic subdivision was yellow-bellied form of the genus subandina and pfrimeri are also observed between continental Suiriri. The new species differs sufficiently distinct as to stand and Antillean populations of from S. s. affinis by virtue of all apart from each other as much as Tropical Mockingbird. vocalisations, bill size, colour other taxa within the group. In Phylogenetic analyses of species- pattern of the tail and shape of addition, eisenmanni and level Mimidae relationships based the central rectrices. The species’ caeruliceps have leucotis-type on DNA provide strong support for vernacular name reflects the type- underparts and cheek patterns yet the monophyly and Antillean locality, Chapada dos Guimarães have been traditionally placed origin of a clade consisting of National Park, Mato Grosso, within the picta group, which has tremblers and Pearly-eyed and Brazil, although it has been confused understanding of Scaly-breasted Thrashers, but located in another cerrado reserve, variation, taxonomy and reject monophyly in the genus Noel Kempff Mercado National biogeography. The taxa auricularis Margarops. The analysis failed to Park, dpto. Santa Cruz, Bolivia. and pantchenkoi are not confirm monophyly of all endemic The authors present information diagnosable and should be Antillean mimids because of the on the natural history of the new considered synonyms of emma and apparently contemporaneous species, including a unique wing­ caeruleiceps. Closer study of the diversification of the Antillean lifting display and discuss western Amazonian populations White-breasted Thrasher conservation issues pertaining to referred to lucianii and roseifrons Ramphocinclus brachyurus with the cerrado region. In addition, is needed to determine how many the continental Grey Dumetella they demonstrate that the taxa are involved. carolinensis and Black Catbirds morphologically different sister • Joseph, L. (2000) Beginning an Melanoptila glabrirostris. taxa S. s. affinis and S. s. bahiae end to uncertainty: the However, the endemic Lesser are vocally and behaviourally Neotropical parakeets known Antillean mimids do appear to be similar. as Pyrrhura picta and P. an indigenous radiation. • Zimmer, K. J., Whittaker, A. & leucotis comprise more than • Hunt, J. S., Bermingham, E. & Oren, D. C. (2001) A cryptic new two species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Ricklefs, R. E. (2001) Molecular species of flycatcher Sci. Philadelphia 150: 279–292. systematics and biogeography of (Tyrannidae: Suiriri) from the Antillean thrashers, tremblers cerrado region of central South Advances in W est Indian mimid and mockingbirds (Aves: America. Auk 118: 56–78. phytogenies Mimidae). Auk 118: 35–55. Hunt et al. recently constructed Recent Pyrrhura studies phylogenetic hypotheses for A new genus for the Andean Leo Joseph has presented an Greater and Lesser Antillean green pihas analysis of taxa comprising the mimidae, including five endemic Rick Prum has erected a new two Neotropical parakeets species of tremblers and genus for Grey-tailed Pyrrhura picta and P. leucotis, and thrashers, Brown Cinclocerthia subalaris and Olivaceous Pihas L. concluded that these refer to more ruficauda and Grey Tremblers C. cryptolophus. The genus is named than two species. The 13 taxa are gutturalis, Pearly-eyed Margarops Snowornis, in honour of David usually aligned thus: picta fuscatus and Scaly-breasted Snow who first suggested the group —picta, amazonum, lucianii, Thrashers M. fuscus, and Andean green pihas were only roseifrons, caeruleiceps, Antillean and continental distantly related to other subandina, pantchenkoi and populations of the Tropical Mimus Lipaugus species. The author eisenmanni, and the leucotis gilvus and Northern Mockingbirds outlines his reasoning behind the group —leucotis , pfrimeri, M. polyglottos. Phylogeography new genus, provides some

12 C otin ga 16 Taxonomic Roundup information on the biology of the has priority over Propyrrhura is erroneous, as the two species, and recommends they Propyrrhura earlier generic name Primolius be renamed Grey-tailed Cotinga John Penhallurick has demon­ has priority. and Olivaceous Cotinga to reflect strated that the placing of • Penhallurick, J. (2001) their distant relationship to other Blue-wingedAra maracana, Blue­ Primolius Bonaparte, 1857 has pihas. headed A. couloni and priority over Propyrrhura • Prum, R. (2001) A new genus Golden-collared A. Ribeiro, 1920. Bull. Brit. Orn. for the Andean green pihas auricollis in the genus Club 121: 38. (Cotingidae). Ibis 143: 307–309.

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A new species of piha from the flycatcher (Tyrannidae: ruficeps by the río Marañón, and Colombian Andes ) 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 elaenia 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 Foothill Elaenia, is be wholly discredited. Similarly perhaps most closely related to A new Poecilotriccus from disjunct patterns can be observed Grey Elaenia M. caniceps of lower northern Peru among several sister taxa elevations, and Forest Elaenia 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 birds 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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New perspectives concerning Additionally, the unique type of E. status is already a source for the genus E riocnem is ventralis (Salvin 1891) is probably considerable concern. The new With 11 currently recognised of hybrid origin (E. vestita × form is obviously closely related to species, the genus Eriocnemis is cupreoventris). The genus may Black-headed Antbird P. rufifrons, one of the most diversified Andean have evolved in the northern and the authors also studied vocal hummingbird groups, which Andes, subsequently spreading differences between the four occupies mainly open montane south and invading the central subspecies within the rufifrons habitats such as cloud-forest edge Andes. Its recent range and complex. These proved to be or páramo. On the basis of phylogenetic patterns indicate insubstantial, although morpho­ distributional and morphological vicariance events as the major logical differences are noticeable patterns, a new study highlights speciation factor in Eriocnemis. and Isler et al. recommend that the geographical variation and • Schuchmann, K.-L., Weller, A.- genetic studies are undertaken of biogeography of the group. A. & Heynen, I. (2001) the genus and related groups. Characteristics common to all the Systematics and biogeography • Isler, M. L., Alvarez Alonso, J., species are the greenish dorsal of the Andean genus Eriocnemis Isler, P. R. & Whitney, B. M. plumage, the conspicuous and (Aves: Trochilidae). J. Orn. 142: (2001) A new species of mostly whitish tibial tufts, and 433–481. Percnostola antbird fairly pronounced tail bifurcation. (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) With the help of plumage W as St Kitts Bullfinch a species? from Amazonian Peru, and an synapomorphies for a cladistic Orlando Garrido and Jim Wiley analysis of species limits with analysis, several species groups or presented a paper at the 2001 Percnostola rufifrons. Wilson superspecies can be distinguished: Meeting of the Society of Bull. 113: 164–176. the E. vestita group (including Caribbean Ornithology suggesting Glowing E. vestita , Turquoise- that Loxigilla portoricensis Fresh research into the genus throated E. godini and grandis, which has traditionally Hemispingus Black-breasted Puffl egs E. been viewed as a form of Puerto The genus Hemispingus nigrivestis), the E. luciani group Rican Bullfinch, be accorded traditionally comprises 12 species (including Sapphire-vented E. species status, based on longer of rather dull-coloured of luciani, Coppery-bellied E. tail, wing chord, tarsus and Andean forests. Four of these are cupreoventris and Coppery-naped culmen, and differences in the polytypic, with as many as seven Puffl egs E. sapphiropygia), and pattern and coloration of the subspecies recognised for H. the E. alinae group (including plumage. L. grandis, which is superciliaris. Taxonomic Emerald-bellied E. alinae and restricted to St Kitts, has not been relationships within this group, Colourful E. mirabilis). certainly recorded since the 1920s and with similar-looking Blue-capped E. glaucopoides, but the authors consider that it Basileuterus warblers, are Golden-breasted E. mosquera and may persist in the high forest on confused and poorly understood. A Black-thighed Puffl egs E. derbyi Mount Misery. new study has used partial differ quite widely in morphology • Garrido, O. H. & Wiley, J. W. mtDNA sequences and a set of and ecological requirements from (2001) The taxonomic status of morphological characters to study the others. Three new subspecies the their phylogenetic relationships. are described within the present (Loxigilla portoricensis) [Aves: The molecular dataset strongly review, E. vestita arcosi from Emberizidae] in Puerto Rico supports the monophyly of south Ecuador and north Peru, and St. Kitts. El Pitirre 14: 76. Hemispingus (including the and E. luciani baptistae from warbler-like species and finch-like central and south Ecuador. A A new species of Percnostola H. rufosuperciliaris) compared to previously overlooked specimen of We recently reported the discovery other nine-primaried oscines E. luciani from the Andes of of a new Zimmerius tyrannulet (Ramphocelus, Chlorospingus, Mérida is the first species record from the white-sand forests of Atlapetes /Buarremon , for Venezuela, c. 1100 km north­ north-east Peru (Cotinga 17: 11). Basileuterus) and indicates either east of the main range, and it is Now Alvarez Alonso, Whitney and that Atlapetes /Buarremon could be recommended that it should be their co-workers have described a tanagers or that Chlorospingus recognised taxonomically as E. new antbird, Percnostola may be finches. The authors of the luciani meridae, on the basis of its arenarum (the Allpahuayo study propose a phylogeny unique plumage morphology and Antbird), from the same area. Like containing three major clades: geographical separation. the tyrannulet, its conservation mostly greenish eye-browed birds

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New perspectives concerning Resumo de tese. Atualidades Aulacorhynchus toucanets in t h e g e n u s Formicivora Ornitológicas 102: 2. Middle Am erica Doctoral work by Luiz Gonzaga, Following recent analysis of including a cladistic analysis, Ongoing w ork suggests Cuban geographic patterns of variation in indicates that the Formicivora Black-hawk is a species … morphological differences in genus, as presently constituted, is The results of ongoing work into Central American Aulacorhynchus not monophyletic. F. iheringi the taxonomic status of the Cuban toucanets, the authors of a recent should be excluded, probably to Black Hawk Buteogallus study recommend that reside in a monotypic genus anthracinus gundlachii were henceforward four species are Neorhopias, and Stymphalornis presented as a paper at the recognised: A. wagleri in west acutirostris should be included in Society of Caribbean Ornithology Mexico, A. prasinus in east Mexico Formicivora. Cladistic analysis in Cuba in July 2001, and suggest, and north Central America, A. also confirms the suggestion made on the basis of vocalisations, caeruleogularis in Costa Rica and by other workers that the genus feeding ecology, habitat west Panama, and A. cognatus in Myrmotherula is not mono­ preferences and size differences, eastern Panama, with several phyletic. that gundlachii warrants specific additional species-level forms in • Gonzaga, L. P. (2001) Análise recognition. South America (A. lautus, A. filogenética do Gênero • Wiley, J. W. & Garrido, O. H. albivitta and A. nigrogularis). The Formicivora Swainson 1825 (2001) Status and biology of the most recently published review of (Aves: Passeriformes, Cuban b lackh awk, Buteogallus these toucanets (Short & Horne in Thamnophilidae) baseada em anthracinus gundlachii. El Handbook of the birds of the caracteres morfológicos e vocais. Pitirre 14: 143–144. world) considers all of these forms

13 C otinga 19 Taxonomic Roundup to be subspecies of A. prasinus, the to the type ofX . picus kienerii, a limits within Grey-headed Emerald Toucanet. subspecies of the Straight-billed Quail-dove Geotrygon caniceps • Navarro S., A. G., Peterson, A. Woodcreeper known from western and implications for the T., Lopez-Medrano, E. & Amazonian Brazil, around Tefé. conservation of a globally Benítez-Díaz, H. (2001) Species Following Zimmer's description of threatened species. Bird limits in Mesoamerican X. necopinus, in 1934, the taxon Conserv. Intern. 12: 169–187. Aulacorhynchus toucanets. was unknown until its rediscovery Wilson Bull. 113: 363–372. in 1993. Based on their research, Two recognisable form s of Aleixo and Whitney affirm that Olive-capped W arbler A long-standing m ystery solved necopinus is but a junior synonym A recent paper recommends, on The prodigious Islers and their co­ of kienerii, but intend to the basis of the differences in workers have recently resolved the demonstrate in a future morphology and the longer tail of source of the discrepancy between communication that necopinus, a specimens from Grand Bahama, the 1930s findings of John Zimmer taxon largely restricted to tall, that Olive-capped Warbler and Melvin Carriker concerning seasonally flooded várzea forest on Dendroica pityophila be the taxonomy of the Chestnut­ riverbanks and islands, principally considered to comprise two tailed Antbird Myrmeciza in central and western Amazonia, subspecies: nominate pityophila in hemimelaena in Andean Peru. nonetheless demands specific Cuba and D. p. bahamensis on Zimmer described M. h. castanea status and should not be Abaco and Grand Bahama. from the foothills of San Martin, considered conspecific with X. • Garrido, O. H. (2000) Es la but Carriker was unable to discern picus. Bijirita del Pinar (Dendroica any differences between additional • Aleixo, A. & Whitney, B. M. pityophila ) (Aves: Parulidae) specimens, taken at the same (2002) Dendroplex (= especie monotípica? El Pitirre elevation in an adjoining valley, Xiphorhynchus) necopinus 13: 8–11. from the nominate form. In fact, as Zimmer 1934 the Islers and their co-authors (Dendrocolaptidae) is a junior W estern Tanager demonstrate, both were correct: synonym of Dendrornis kienerii two cryptic sister taxa occur (= Xiphorhynchus picus photographs syntopically in this region of Peru. kienerii) Des Murs 1855. Auk In Cotinga 18, the photos on Additionally, the authors 119: 520–523. p. 97 of the male Western recommend that castanea is Tanager Piranga ludoviciana meritorious of recognition at Grey-headed Q uail-Dove is two did not reproduce as we had species level (under the suggested s p e c ie s hoped; indeed, many readers English name Northern Chestnut­ Grey-headed Quail-Dove Geotrygon may have been hard-pressed to tailed Antbird with M. caniceps has traditionally been identify the bird as a tanager! hemimelaena being named the considered a polytypic species As the originals do clearly Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird) restricted to Cuba and the show a male Western Tanager, and, in evaluating the range of , and treated we have given interested variation across the entire species, as globally threatened by Birdlife readers the option of viewing they are also able to recognise a International. Orlando Garrido them in colour on the Internet. new subspecies, M. h. and co-workers have recently re­ Visit the NBC home page centunculorum, from the lowlands evaluated the decision, taken by (www.neotropicalbirdclub.org) north of the río Marañón in Peru. Bond in 1936 to merge and follow the links via • Isler, M. L., Alvarez Alonso, J., leucometopius within caniceps, and Cotinga 18 to Isler, P. R., Valqui, T., Begazo, A. concluded that consistent www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/ & Whitney, B. M. (2002) differences in coloration, some feature/cotinga18/ Rediscovery of a cryptic species mensural characteristics, and westerntanager.html. It is and description of a new aspects of their natural history worth remarking that, due to subspecies in the Myrmeciza suggest that caniceps (from Cuba) constraints on the number of hemimelaena complex and leucometopius (in the pages of colour in Cotinga, the (Thamnophilidae) of the Dominican Republic) should again editors are occasionally forced Neotropics. Auk 119: 362–378. be considered species. Further to make difficult decisions as to work on their vocalisations and which images to prioritise. Xiphorhynchus necopinus is a molecular analyses are required to Offers of sponsorship for junior synonym but Zim m er’s test this hypothesis. Both forms additional colour or just extra W oodcreeper is a species qualify as Vulnerable under pages in Cotinga will be most Alex Aleixo and Bret Whitney have current IUCN threat criteria, and welcome, and should be made recently shown that Zimmer’s leucometopius may warrant via the Club Secretary type-series of a new species, categorisation as Endangered ([email protected]) Xiphorhynchus necopinus (the under the range criterion. or the Senior Editor Zimmer’s Woodcreeper), are • Garrido, O. H., Kirwan, G. M. & ([email protected]). phenotypically extremely similar Capper, D. R. (2002) Species

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(trifasciatus, atropileus, auricula- Name change for Black- … and for Bolivian Blackbird ris and calophrys), mostly grey spectacled Brush-Finch … Based on changing perspectives in warbler-like birds (superciliaris, The range-restricted and globally icterid systematics, Peter Lowther verticalis and xanthophthalmus), threatened Atlapetes melanops has suggested that a new name is and mostly ochraceous birds (Black-spectacled or Black-faced required for the Bolivian (rufosuperciliaris, goeringi, piurae, Brush-Finch) is a recently Blackbird Oreopsar bolivianus, frontalis and melanotis). The described taxon (see Cotinga 12: and recommends Agelaioides relationships among these three 44). In a corrigendum to their Oreopsar as being appropriate. clades are unresolved. Species paper describing the species, • Lowther, P. E. (2001) New name status is suggested for H. Thomas Valqui and Jon Fjeldså for the Bolivian Blackbird. Bull. auricularis and H. piurae. The have suggested that the specific Brit. Orn. Club 121: 280–281. molecular data suggest that most name be revised to melanopsis, diversity in Hemispingus tanagers because melanops is a junior predates the period of marked eco- homonym of Buarremon melanops climatic fluctuations in the upper (the specimen of which most Pleistocene. probably represents an example of • García-Moreno, J., Ohlson, J. & Atlapetes [rufinucha] Fjeldså, J. (2001) MtDNA melanolaemus). sequences support monophyly • Valqui, T. & Fjeldså, J. (2002) of Hemispingus tanagers. Atlapetes melanopsis nom. nov. and for the Black-faced Brush-Finch. Evol. 21: 424–435. Ibis 144: 347.

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