Streaked Tuftedcheek

About the Streaked Tuftedcheek

The streaked tuftedcheek (Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii) is a passerine bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. According to the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World, the streaked tuftedcheek has these eight subspecies:

P. b. striaticeps Hellmayr & Seilern, 1912 P. b. meridae Hartert, EJO & Goodson, 1917 P. b. boissonneautii (Lafresnaye, 1840) P. b. oberholseri Cory, 1919 P. b. intermedianus Chapman, 1923 P. b. medianus Hellmayr, 1919 P. b. auritus (Tschudi, 1844)

P. b. carabayae Zimmer, JT, 1936 HBW spells the species' specific epithet boissonneauii (without a "t"), as that is how its namesake Auguste Boissonneau spelled his name. Other taxonomic systems retain the "t", though the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) is seeking a proposal to correct the spelling.

The Clements taxonomy adds two more subspecies, P. b. orientalis (Zimmer, JT, 1935) and P. b. pallidus (Zimmer, JT, 1935). The IOC and HBW include orientalis in oberholseri and pallidus... Wikipedia →