Black-capped Tinamou

SCI Name:  Crypturellus atrocapillus
Protonym:  Crypturus atro-capillus Arch.Naturgesch. 10 p.307
Taxonomy:  Tinamiformes / Tinamidae / Crypturellus
Taxonomy Code:  blctin1
Type Locality:  Peru.
Author:  von Tschudi
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CRYPTURELLUS
(Tinamidae; † Tataupá Tinamou C. tataupa) Dim. < genus Crypturus Illiger, 1811, tinamou; "CRYPTURELLUS, gen.nov.  We have not included in the genus Crypturus the two species C. tataupa and C. parvirostris, as we consider them to differ generically, chiefly in the formation of the bills.  In all the South-American species of the preceding genus (twenty) the nostrils are placed in the anterior half of the bill, whereas in Crypturellus they are situated in the posterior portion.  The membrane on this part is more persistent than in Crypturus and the gonys is proportionately much longer.  We propose C. tataupa (Temminck) as the type" (Brabourne & Chubb 1914); "Crypturellus Brabourne and Chubb, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), 14, 1914, p. 322.  Type, by original designation, "C. tataupa Temm." (= Tinamus tataupa Temminck.)" (Peters, 1931, I, p. 15).
Synon. Crypturornis, Microcrypturus, Orthocrypturus.

atrocapillus
L. atricapillus black-haired < ater black; capillus hair of the head.

SUBSPECIES

Black-capped Tinamou (atrocapillus)
SCI Name: Crypturellus atrocapillus atrocapillus
atrocapillus
L. atricapillus black-haired < ater black; capillus hair of the head.

Black-capped Tinamou (garleppi)
SCI Name: Crypturellus atrocapillus garleppi
garleppi
Gustav Adolf Garlepp (1862-1907) German collector in tropical America 1883-1907 (Crypturellus, subsp. Merganetta leucogenis, syn. Molothrus oryzivorus, syn. Phaethornis pretrei, Poospiza, subsp. Rhea tarapacensis).