The white-crowned tapaculo (Scytalopus atratus) is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae.

However, the vocalizations of birds of the eastern Andes (S. a. atratus in part) differ from those in the west, "suggesting that [they] are a separate species".

The male S. a. confusus is paler than the nominate (slaty black) with a brownish lower back.

Subspecies S. a. nigricans is found only in Venezuela, in Sierra de Perijá and the southern slope of the Andes in Táchira and Mérida states.

[2][4] The white-crowned tapaculo inhabits the undergrowth in the interior and edges of humid montane forest.

[4] Some examples include this from near Bogotá, Colombia [1], this from near La Florida, Department of Amazonas, Peru [2], and this from Mérida, Venezuela [3].