Ashy Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola cinereolus
Protonym:  Cisticola cinereola Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 26 p.254
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  ashcis1
Type Locality:  Farre, Awash valley, Abyssinia.
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1888
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

cinereola / cinereolus
Mod. L. cinereolus  ashy, somewhat ash-coloured  < L. cinereus  ash-coloured  < cinis, cineris  ashes.

SUBSPECIES

Ashy Cisticola (cinereolus)
SCI Name: Cisticola cinereolus cinereolus
cinereola / cinereolus
Mod. L. cinereolus  ashy, somewhat ash-coloured  < L. cinereus  ash-coloured  < cinis, cineris  ashes.

Ashy Cisticola (schillingsi)
SCI Name: Cisticola cinereolus schillingsi
schillingsi
Carl Georg Schillings (1865-1921) German wildlife-photographer, explorer in East Africa 1896-1903 (syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus microrhynchus, subsp. Cisticola cinereolus, syn. Gyps africanus, syn. Mirafra cantillans marginata, syn. Phyllastrephus strepitans, syn. Ploceus castaneiceps).