Chirping Cisticola

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

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.