Chirping Cisticola

Chirping Cisticola / Cisticola pipiens

Chirping Cisticola

Here the details of the Chirping Cisticola named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cisticola pipiens
Protonym:  Cisticola pipiens Ibis CisticolaSuppl. p.404 pl.14 fig.58
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae /
Taxonomy Code:  chicis1
Type Locality:  Huambo, Benguela, Angola; altitude 5,500 feet.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1930
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.

pipiens
L. pipiens, pipientis  chirping  < pipare  to chirp.
● ex “Grivetin” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 118 (syn. Erythropygia leucophrys).

SUBSPECIES

Chirping Cisticola (pipiens)
SCI Name: Cisticola pipiens pipiens
pipiens
L. pipiens, pipientis  chirping  < pipare  to chirp.
● ex “Grivetin” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 118 (syn. Erythropygia leucophrys).

Chirping Cisticola (congo)
SCI Name: Cisticola pipiens congo
congica / congicus / congo / congoensis
Congo or Belgian Congo / DR Congo.

Chirping Cisticola (arundicola)
SCI Name: Cisticola pipiens arundicola
arundicola
L. arundo, arundinis reed; -cola -dweller < colere to dwell.