The rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner (''Philydor erythrocercum'') is a species of
bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird
family Furnariidae. It is found in
Bolivia
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,
Brazil,
Colombia
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,
Ecuador,
French Guiana,
Guyana
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,
Peru, and
Suriname
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.
Taxonomy and systematics
The rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner has these five subspecies:
[
*''P. e. subfulvum'' Sclater, PL, 1862
*''P. e. ochrogaster'' ]Hellmayr
Carl Eduard Hellmayr (29 January 1878 in Vienna, Austria – 24 February 1944 in Orselina, Switzerland) was an Austrian ornithologist.
Biography
Hellmayr was born in Vienna and studied at the University of Vienna, although he did not complete hi ...
, 1917
*''P. e. lyra'' Cherrie
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, 1916
*''P. e. suboles'' Todd
Todd or Todds may refer to:
Places
;Australia:
* Todd River, an ephemeral river
;United States:
* Todd Valley, California, also known as Todd, an unincorporated community
* Todd, Missouri, a ghost town
* Todd, North Carolina, an unincorporated ...
, 1948
*''P. e. erythrocercum'' ( Pelzeln, 1859)
Early in the twentieth century ''P. e. subfulvum'' was treated as a separate species. In the late twentieth century at least one taxonomic system treated ''P. e. erythrocercum'' as a separate species, and some authors advocate returning to that treatment. What is now the nominate subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
of the slaty-winged foliage-gleaner (''P. fuscipenne fuscipenne'') was for a time treated as subspecies of the rufous-rumped.[Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 31 May 2023. A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithological Society. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm retrieved May 31, 2023][Remsen, Jr., J. V. (2020). Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner (''Philydor erythrocercum''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.rurfog1.01 retrieved August 27, 2023]
Description
The rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner is about long and weighs . Male and female plumages are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale tawny-buff eyering and supercilium
The supercilium is a plumage feature found on the heads of some bird species. It is a stripe which runs from the base of the bird's beak above its eye, finishing somewhere towards the rear of the bird's head.Dunn and Alderfer (2006), p. 10 Also ...
on an otherwise dark