Barratt’s Warbler
Barratt's Warbler
Here the details of the Barratt's Warbler named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Bradypterus barratti Ibis p.53
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Locustellidae / Bradypterus
Taxonomy Code: afswar1
Type Locality: neighborhood of Mac Mac goldfields, Lydenburg district, Transvaal.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1876
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BRADYPTERUS
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Little Rush-warbler B. baboecala) Gr. βραδυς bradus slow, sluggish; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing; "BRADYPTETUS, Sw. General size and habit of Curuca. The bill distinctly notched. Wings short; the three first quills equally graduated. Tail rounded; the feathers remarkably broad and soft. Feet large, strong, and robust; the lateral toes equal. Claws slender, slightly curved. Africa. B. platyurus. Ois. d'Af. pl. 122. ... [Index] Bradypterus, Sw." (Swainson 1837); "Bradyptetus [sic] Swainson, 1837, Nat. Hist. Class. Birds, 2, p. 241, Bradypterus in index, p. 379. Type, by monotypy, Bradyptetus platyurus Swainson = Sylvia baboaecala Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 17).
Var. Bradyptetus (original spelling), ?Bradyptetes.
Synon. Androphilus, Caffrillas, Dromaeocercus, Dumeticola, Pseudotharrhaleus, Sathrocercus, Stasiasticus, Sylvaticus, Tribura.
● (Muscicapidae; syn. Hodgsonius † White-bellied Redstart H. phaenicuroides). "Bradypterus phænicuroides, [drawing no.] 817." (Hodgson 1844); "Bradypterus Hodgson, 1844, in Gray's Zool. Miscellany, p. 83 (nom. nud.) (not of Swainson, 1837). Type, by monotypy, Bradypterus phaenicuroides "Hodgs." Gray, 1847." (JAJ 2021) (see Bradybates).
Var. Brachypterus.
barratti
F. A. Barratt (fl. 1875) collector in the Transvaal, South Africa (Bradypterus).
SUBSPECIES
Barratt's Warbler (priesti)
SCI Name: Bradypterus barratti priesti
priesti
Capt. Cecil Damer Priest (1887-1955) oologist, ornithologist in Southern Rhodesia / Zimbabwe) (subsp. Bradypterus barratti).
Barratt's Warbler (barratti)
SCI Name: Bradypterus barratti barratti
barratti
F. A. Barratt (fl. 1875) collector in the Transvaal, South Africa (Bradypterus).
Barratt's Warbler (cathkinensis)
SCI Name: Bradypterus barratti cathkinensis
cathkinensis
Cathkin Peak, Giant’s Castle, Natal, South Africa.
Barratt's Warbler (godfreyi)
SCI Name: Bradypterus barratti godfreyi
godfreyi
Revd. Dr Robert Godfrey (1872-1948) Scottish physician, missionary to South Africa 1907-1946, naturalist (subsp. Bradypterus barratti).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)