Guianan Warbling Antbird

The Guianan warbling antbird, or Guianan antwarbler, (Hypocnemis cantator) is an insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. == Taxonomy and systematics == The French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon described the Guianan warbling antbird in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1779. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-colored plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Buffon did not include a scientific name with his description but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Formicarius cantatar in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. Its present genus Hypocnemis was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847. The specific epithet is from the Latin cantator "a singer". The Imeri (Hypocnemis flavescens), Peruvian (H. peruviana), yellow-breasted (H. subflava), and Spix's warbling antbird (H. striata) were all formerly treated as subspecies of what is now the Guianan warbling antbird. That multi-subspecies taxon was simply called the warbling antbird. A study published in 2007 found that there were significant vocal differences as well as…