White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) [XC260520]
by Paul Coopmans from Pichincha: Tandayapa ridge 3 km SSW Tandayapa, Ecuador (call, chase calls, short variant)
White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) [XC833534]
by rudy gelis from Mindo, Cant\u00f3n San Miguel de Los Bancos, Pichincha, Ecuador (call)
Subspecies
Based on display patterns, genus is closely related to Urosticte, Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia. Rufous-booted subspecies addae, annae and peruanus sometimes considered to constitute one to three separate species.
Proposed subspecies ambiguus is synonymous with incommodus.
The following 8 subspecies are recognised:
polystictus Todd, 1942 - Coastal mountains of northern Venezuela (Carabobo to Miranda).
discifer (Heine, 1863) - North-western Venezuela (Zulia and Falcón to Táchira and western Barinas) and north-eastern Colombia (Norte de Santander).
underwoodii (Lesson, 1832) - Eastern Andes of Colombia.
incommodus (Kleinschmidt, O, 1943) - Western and central Andes of Colombia.
melanantherus (Jardine, 1851) - Both slopes of Andes of Ecuador.
peruanus (Gould, 1849) - Eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru.
annae (Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1894) - Central and southern Peru. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rufous-booted Racquet-tail (Ocreatus addae).
addae (Bourcier, 1846) - Bolivia (Yungas of La Paz to Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rufous-booted Racquet-tail (Ocreatus addae).