Tawny Antpitta

SCI Name:  Grallaria quitensis
Protonym:  Grallaria quitensis EchoMondeSav.(2), 11 no.49 col.848
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Grallariidae / Grallaria
Taxonomy Code:  tawant1
Type Locality:  vicinity of Quito, Ecuador.
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

GRALLARIA
(Grallariidae; Ϯ Variegated Antpitta G. varia) Mod. L. grallarius  stilt-walker  < L. grallae  stilts  < obsolete gradula  little step  < dim. gradus  step; "GRALLARIE, Grallaria.  Turdus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec droit, un peu fort, épais, convexe en dessus, à dos caréné, comprimé par les côtés; mandibule supérieure échancrée et courbée à la pointe. — Jambes demi-nues. — Queue courte.   Esp. Roi des Fourmilliers, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Grallaria Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, Roi des Fourmilliers, Buffon = Formicarius varius Boddaert." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 262).
Synon. Agaura, Chamaebates, Colobathris, Hypsibemon, Myiotrichas, Myioturdus, Oropezus.

grallaria
Mod. L. grallarius  stilt-walker  < L. grallae  stilts  < obsolete gradula  little step  < dim. gradus  step.

quitensis
Quito, Ecuador.

SUBSPECIES

Tawny Antpitta (Northern)
SCI Name: Grallaria quitensis alticola
alticola
L. altus  high (i.e. highland, mountain)  < alere  to nourish; -cola  dweller  < colere  to inhabit.
● Erroneous TL. Fife, N.E. Rhodesia, near Nyasaland border (= Isoka, Northern Rhodesia / Zambia); "Cisticola alticola  ...  Not a Cisticola (cf. steeply graduated tail of long narrow feathers; broad-based, fine-pointed first primary; lores coloured with head-top, &c.), but nearer Apalis and allies." (Lynes 1930) (Apalis).

Tawny Antpitta (Western)
SCI Name: Grallaria quitensis quitensis
quitensis
Quito, Ecuador.

Tawny Antpitta (Southern)
SCI Name: Grallaria quitensis atuensis
atuensis
Atuén, Amazonas, Peru.