Variegated Antpitta
Photo © Diogo Luiz
Photo © Diogo Luiz — CC BY 4.0 — Source: iNaturalist photo #53746383The variegated antpitta (Grallaria varia) is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the Guianas, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. == Taxonomy and systematics == The variegated antpitta was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. 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. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Formicarius varius in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The variegated antpitta is now placed in the genus Grallaria that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The genus name is from Neo-Latin grallarius meaning "stilt-walker". The specific epithet varia is from Latin varius meaning "various", "diverse" or "variegated". The variegated antpitta has these five subspecies: G. v. cinereiceps Hellmayr, 1903 G. v. varia (Boddaert, 1783) G. v. distincta Todd, 1927 G. v. intercedens von Berlepsch & Leverkühn, 1890…
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