Geositta cunicularia titicacae Zimmer, 1935b: 1

LECROY, MARY & SLOSS, RICHARD, 2000, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 3. Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, And Rhinocryptidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (257), pp. 1-88 : 16

Geositta cunicularia titicacae Zimmer, 1935b: 1 (Tirapata, 12,700 feet, Titicaca Basin, Perú).

Now Geositta cunicularia titicacae Zimmer, 1935 . See

Fjeldså and Krabbe, 1990: 328, and Ridgely and Tudor,

1994: 26.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 145146 , adult male, collected at Tirapata , 12,700 ft, 14°57′S, 70°24′W, Puno, Peru, on 30 July 1916, by Frank M. Chapman and George K. Cherrie.

COMMENTS: Zimmer (1935b: 1) restricted the name G. c. frobeni to the population occurring on the “arid Pacific slopes of the Andes in southwestern Peru ” and proposed this name for the population occurring in the “high plateau region of southeastern Peru, Bolivia, and probably northwestern Argentina.”

Fjeldså and Krabbe (1990: 329) suggested that, based on vocal differences, cunicularia may be a distinct species. The remaining taxa would then become subspecies of G. fissirostris (Kittlitz, 1825) , the next available name.