Baikal Bush Warbler

SCI Name:  Locustella davidi
Protonym:  Tribura thoracica davidi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 43 p. 168
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Locustellidae / Locustella
Taxonomy Code:  spobuw1
Type Locality:  Chinwangtao, northeastern Chihli (= Hopeh).
Author:  La Touche
Publish Year:  1923
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LOCUSTELLA
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Common Grasshopper Warbler L. naevia) Specific name Sylvia locustella Latham 1790  < Mod. L. locustella  little grasshopper  < dim. L. locusta  grasshopper; from the whirring, high-pitched, insect-like song of the Common Grasshopper Warbler; "3. Sylvia locustella.   ...   3. Heuschreckensänger. Locustella.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.   Ch[arakter]. Rohrsänger mit geflecktem Kopf, Rücken und unteren Schwanzdeckfedern.   L[ebensart]. Sie gleichen den Rohrsängern, leben aber sehr versteckt." (Kaup 1829); "Locustella Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 115. Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia locustella Latham = Motacilla naevia Boddaert." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 50) (see Salicaria).
Synon. Acridiornis, Aedonops, Aedonopsis, Dilara, Luscinioides, Lusciniopsis, Parnopia, Philomelopsis, Potamodus, Pseudoluscinia, Psithyroedus, Salicaria, Sibilatrix, Threnetria.

locustella
Mod. L. locustella  little grasshopper   < dim. L. locusta grasshopper.
● ex “Locustelle” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (syn. Locustella naevia).
● ex “Grasshopper Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Locustella naevia).

davidi / davidiana / davidianus / davidii
● Abbé Père Jean Pierre Armand David (1826-1900) French missionary to China 1858-1874, naturalist (subsp. Alcippe morrisonia (ex Alcippe cinerea David, 1871), syn. Anser caerulescens, syn. Calliope pectardens, subsp. Carpodacus pulcherrimus, subsp. Cyanoderma ruficeps, syn. Cygnus cygnus, Garrulax, subsp. Horornis fortipes, Locustella, Neosuthora, Niltava, syn. Phylloscopus armandii, syn. Phylloscopus subaffinis, Poecile, syn. Pucrasia macrolopha xanthospila, Pyrgilauda, subsp. Strix uralensis, syn. Turdus obscurus).
● "Cette sous-espèce est dédiée à Monsieur le Professeur Louis David." (Mourer-Chauviré 1975) (subsp. Bubo bubo).
● Louis Henri André David-Beaulieu (1896-1969) French colonial adminstrator in Indochina, naturalist (Arborophila, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus).
● Pierre-Jean David known as David d’Angers (1788-1856) French sculptor (syn. Phaethornis ruber).
● Dr William David Kerr MacGillivray (1867-1933) Australian physician, naturalist, oologist (syn. Rhipidura rufiventris isura).
● Flight-Lt. Dr David Lakin Harrison (1926-2015) RAF physician, zoologist, taxonomist, palaeontologist (syn. Sitta europaea persica).

SUBSPECIES

Baikal Bush Warbler (suschkini)
SCI Name: Locustella davidi suschkini
suschkini / suschkiniana
Prof. Dr Petr Petrovich Sushkin (1868-1928) Russian zoologist, palaeontologist (syn. Alcedo atthis, syn. Emberiza pallasi (ex Cynchramus pallasii montana Sushkin, 1925), syn. Gavia arctica, subsp. Locustella davidi, subsp. Numenius arquata, subsp. Perdix dauurica, syn. Perisoreus infaustus sibericus, syn. Poecile montanus songarus, syn. Trachyphonus vaillantii suahelicus).

Baikal Bush Warbler (davidi)
SCI Name: Locustella davidi davidi
davidi / davidiana / davidianus / davidii
● Abbé Père Jean Pierre Armand David (1826-1900) French missionary to China 1858-1874, naturalist (subsp. Alcippe morrisonia (ex Alcippe cinerea David, 1871), syn. Anser caerulescens, syn. Calliope pectardens, subsp. Carpodacus pulcherrimus, subsp. Cyanoderma ruficeps, syn. Cygnus cygnus, Garrulax, subsp. Horornis fortipes, Locustella, Neosuthora, Niltava, syn. Phylloscopus armandii, syn. Phylloscopus subaffinis, Poecile, syn. Pucrasia macrolopha xanthospila, Pyrgilauda, subsp. Strix uralensis, syn. Turdus obscurus).
● "Cette sous-espèce est dédiée à Monsieur le Professeur Louis David." (Mourer-Chauviré 1975) (subsp. Bubo bubo).
● Louis Henri André David-Beaulieu (1896-1969) French colonial adminstrator in Indochina, naturalist (Arborophila, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus).
● Pierre-Jean David known as David d’Angers (1788-1856) French sculptor (syn. Phaethornis ruber).
● Dr William David Kerr MacGillivray (1867-1933) Australian physician, naturalist, oologist (syn. Rhipidura rufiventris isura).
● Flight-Lt. Dr David Lakin Harrison (1926-2015) RAF physician, zoologist, taxonomist, palaeontologist (syn. Sitta europaea persica).

Baikal Bush Warbler (shanensis)
SCI Name: Locustella davidi shanensis
shanense / shanensis
Shan States, Burma / Shan State, Myanmar.