Amazonian antpitta
The Amazonian antpitta is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.
Taxonomy and systematics
The Amazonian antpitta was originally described in 1903 as Grallaria berlepschi. It was later transferred to genus Hylopezus and still later to Myrmothera.The Amazonian antpitta has two subspecies, the nominate M. b. berlepschi, and M. b. yessupi.
Description
The Amazonian antpitta is long; males weigh and females. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a buffy loral spot and pinkish red bare skin around their eye. Their crown, nape, ear coverts, upperparts, and tail are olive-brown. Their wings are mostly olive-brown with olive-buff outer webs on the primaries. Their throat is white. Their breast and sides are buffy ochraceous with coarse dusky streaks, their belly white, and their flanks and crissum orange-rufous. Subspecies M. b. yessupi has slightly browner and darker upperparts and slightly deeper buff underparts than the nominate. Both subspecies have a brown iris, a dusky gray maxilla, a pinkish white mandible with a dusky tip, and bright pink legs and feet.Distribution and habitat
As its English name implies, the Amazonian antpitta is a bird of the Amazon Basin. The nominate subspecies has the larger range of the two. It is found in Brazil from the upper Purus River northeast to Pará where it occurs between the Tapajós and Xingu rivers, and south and west into northern Mato Grosso state, southeastern Peru, and north-central Bolivia. Subspecies M. b. yessupi is found from the southern part of Peru's Department of Loreto souththrough Ucayali and most of Madre de Dios departments and east slightly into western Brazil. The species inhabits the floor and dense undergrowth of riparian forest, mature secondary forest, and the edges of primary forest. In elevation it mostly occurs below but reaches locally in Peru.