Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) [XC353248]
by Guy Kirwan from Cesar, Manaure, Serran\u00eda del Perij\u00e1, arriba de El Cinco, Colombia (song)
Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) [XC432481]
by David Monroy Rengifo from Parque Natural Chicaque, Cundinamarca, Colombia (song)
Subspecies
Was long considered conspecific with Watkins's Antpitta (Grallaria watkinsi), but distinct differences in voice, plumage and bare-part colours, and habitat, and no intermediate specimens or songs known from area of range overlap in south-western Ecuador. Racial affiliation of birds from Cerro Chinguela, in northern Peru, uncertain and tentatively included in nominate subspecies.
nigrolineata Sclater, PL, 1890 - Andes of Venezuela from northern Trujillo south to north-eastern Táchira.
avilae Hellmayr & Seilern, 1914 - Northern Venezuelan Andes (southern Lara) and coastal mountains (east to Miranda).
ruficapilla Lafresnaye, 1842 - Western, central and eastern Andes of Colombia south to central-western and south-eastern Ecuador, probably also including birds from Cerro Chinguela, in northern Peru.
connectens Chapman, 1923 - South-western Ecuador in El Oro and Loja.
albiloris Taczanowski, 1880 - Pacific slope of north-western Peru south to Lambayeque (possibly south to Ancash).
interior Zimmer, JT, 1934 - Western slope of central Andes of Peru in Amazonas and San Martín.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet