Gray Wren-Warbler

Here the details of the Gray Wren-Warbler named bird below:

SCI Name:  Calamonastes simplex
Protonym:  Thamnobia simplex J.Orn. 26 p.205,221
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Calamonastes
Taxonomy Code:  grywrw1
Type Locality:  Ndi, Taita, Kenya.
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1878
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CALAMONASTES
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Barred Wren-warbler C. fasciolatus) Gr. καλαμος kalamos  reed; αστης astēs  singer  < αειδω aeidō  to sing; "e'.Wing much longer than tail.   g''.Tarsus strongly scutellated. . . . . .18. CALAMONASTES, p. 133.   ...  18. CALAMONASTES.  ...  Range. South Africa, extending into Central Africa.  ...  1. Calamonastes fasciolatus.   ...   2. Calamonastes undosus." (Sharpe 1883); "Calamonastes Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, pp. 94 [in key], 133. Type, by subsequent designation (Shelley, 1896, Birds Africa, 1, p. 72), C. fasciolatus = Drymoica fasciolata A. Smith." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, pp. 191-192). These small birds are sometimes known as camaropteras.

simplex
L. simplex, simplicis  simple, plain.
● ex “Simple Tern” of Latham 1785 (Phaetusa ☼).