1 SUPPORTING INFORMATION for Avian distribution patterns in the Guiana Shield: implications for the delimitation of Amazonian areas of endemism by Luciano Nicolás Naka Journal of Biogeography Appendix S1 List of 36 avian taxa that may be endemic to the Guianan area of endemism but which were not included in the analyses. Exclusion was due to: i) taxonomic uncertainty (subspecies could not be unambiguously defined with the material available), ii) inadequate geographic sampling (low number of locality samples to accurately described distribution patterns), and iii) range-restricted distributions (taxa known from a handful of localities). Taxonomy and nomenclature follow Remsen et al. (2010). Species names in trinomials have been abbreviated when referring to the nominate form. Taxon Reason for exclusion Tinamus m. major Taxonomic uncertainty Ortalis m. motmot Inadequate geographic sampling Penelope jacquacu granti Inadequate geographic sampling Crax a. alector Taxonomic uncertainty Caprimulgus maculosus Range-restricted taxon Threnetes niger ssp. Taxonomic uncertainty Phaethornis m. malaris Range-restricted taxon Phaethornis bourcieri whitelyi Taxonomic uncertainty Phaethornis ruber episcopus Taxonomic uncertainty Trogon m. melanurus Taxonomic uncertainty Trogon v. violaceus Taxonomic uncertainty Picumnus exilis ssp. Taxonomic uncertainty Sclerurus rufigularis fulvigularis Inadequate geographic sampling Sclerurus c. caudacutus Taxonomic uncertainty Philydor e. erythrocercum Inadequate geographic sampling Deconychura stictolaema clarior Inadequate geographic sampling Dendrexetastes r. rufigula Inadequate geographic sampling Campylorhamphus p. procurvoides Inadequate geographic sampling Thamnophilus m. murinus Taxonomic uncertainty 2 Thamnophilus melanothorax Inadequate geographic sampling Terenura s. spodioptila Inadequate geographic sampling Cercomacra laeta waimiri Range-restricted taxon Formicarius analis crissalis Inadequate geographic sampling Phylloscartes virescens Inadequate geographic sampling Hemitriccus josephinae Inadequate geographic sampling Tolmomyias poliocephalus klagesi Taxonomic uncertainty Myiobius atricaudus modestus Taxonomic uncertainty Contopus albogularis Range-restricted taxon Machaeropterus pyrocephalus pallidiceps Range-restricted taxon Microbates c. collaris Taxonomic uncertainty Tachyphonus c. cristatus Taxonomic uncertainty Lanio f. fulvus Inadequate geographic sampling Tangara chilensis paradisea Taxonomic uncertainty Tangara v. velia Taxonomic uncertainty Tangara g. gyrola Taxonomic uncertainty Cyanerpes c. cyaneus Taxonomic uncertainty