Cloud Cisticola

Cloud Cisticola / Cisticola textrix

Cloud Cisticola

Here the details of the Cloud Cisticola named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cisticola textrix
Protonym:  Sylvia textrix Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 11 p.208
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae /
Taxonomy Code:  clocis1
Type Locality:  Cape Province ex Levaillant.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1817
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.

textrix
L. textrix, textricis  female weaver  < textor, textoris  weaver  < texere  to weave.
● ex “Pinc-Pinc” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 131 (Cisticola).
● ex “Weaver Bunting” of Latham 1783; “This singular bird received its name from its disposition to interweave silk between the wires of its cage” (Stephens 1815) (syn. Ploceus sp?).

SUBSPECIES

Cloud Cisticola (Cloud)
SCI Name: Cisticola textrix [major Group]
CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

Cloud Cisticola (Cape)
SCI Name: Cisticola textrix textrix
textrix
L. textrix, textricis  female weaver  < textor, textoris  weaver  < texere  to weave.
● ex “Pinc-Pinc” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 131 (Cisticola).
● ex “Weaver Bunting” of Latham 1783; “This singular bird received its name from its disposition to interweave silk between the wires of its cage” (Stephens 1815) (syn. Ploceus sp?).