Long-billed Tailorbird

Here the details of the Long-billed Tailorbird named bird below:

SCI Name:  Artisornis moreaui
Protonym:  Apalis moreaui Bull.Br.Orn.Club 51 p.109
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Artisornis
Taxonomy Code:  lobtai1
Type Locality:  forest near Amani, Usambara district, Tanganyika.
Author:  Sclater, WL
Publish Year:  1931
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ARTISORNIS
(Cisticolidae; † Red-capped Forest Warbler A. metopias altus) L. ars, artis  skill; Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; this bird was formerly known as the African Tailorbird; "Artisornis altus (Friedmann).  Genus Artisornis, nom. n.*  ...  This remarkable new genus and species was collected at an altitude of 8000 feet at Nyingwa, Uluguru Mts. Its nearest relatives appear to be the Indian tailor-birds of the genus Orthotomus from which it differs, however, in having only ten rectrices.  ...  * Replaces Opifex Friedmann, Proc. N. Engl. Zoöl. Cl. x. 1927, p. 4; nec Opifex Hutton, 1902." (Friedmann 1928); "Artisornis Friedmann, 1928, Ibis, p. 93.  New name for Opifex Friedmann, 1927, preoccupied by Opifex Hutton, 1902." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 174).
Synon. Opifex.

moreaui
Reginald Ernest Moreau (1897-1970) British ornithologist, collector (Artisornis, syn. Bradypterus baboecala tongensis, Cinnyris, syn. Malimbus nitens).

SUBSPECIES

Long-billed Tailorbird (Long-billed)
SCI Name: Artisornis moreaui moreaui
moreaui
Reginald Ernest Moreau (1897-1970) British ornithologist, collector (Artisornis, syn. Bradypterus baboecala tongensis, Cinnyris, syn. Malimbus nitens).

Long-billed Tailorbird (Njesi)
SCI Name: Artisornis moreaui sousae
sousae / souzae
● Dr Américo Baptista de Sousa (fl. 1945) Portuguese Provincial Commissioner at Vila Cabral, Mozambique (Artisornis).
● José Augusto de Sousa (1837-1889) Portuguese ornithologist (syn. Estrilda astrild jagoensis, Lanius, subsp. Tchagra australis).