Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler

SCI Name:  Bradypterus cinnamomeus
Protonym:  Sylvia? (Salicaria) cinnamomea NeueWirbelth.Vog. p.111 pl.42 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Locustellidae / Bradypterus
Taxonomy Code:  cibwar1
Type Locality:  labeled Curruca (Sylvia) cinnamomea Entschetqab, Semien Province, Abyssinia.
Author:  Rüppell
Publish Year:  1840
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

BRADYPTERUS
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Little Rush-warbler B. baboecala) Gr. βραδυς bradus  slow, sluggish; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing; "BRADYPTETUS, Sw.  General size and habit of Curuca. The bill distinctly notched. Wings short; the three first quills equally graduated. Tail rounded; the feathers remarkably broad and soft. Feet large, strong, and robust; the lateral toes equal. Claws slender, slightly curved.   Africa.  B. platyurus. Ois. d'Af. pl. 122.   ...   [Index] Bradypterus, Sw." (Swainson 1837); "Bradyptetus [sic] Swainson, 1837, Nat. Hist. Class. Birds, 2, p. 241, Bradypterus in index, p. 379. Type, by monotypy, Bradyptetus platyurus Swainson = Sylvia baboaecala Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 17).   
Var. Bradyptetus (original spelling), ?Bradyptetes.   
Synon. Androphilus, Caffrillas, Dromaeocercus, Dumeticola, Pseudotharrhaleus, Sathrocercus, Stasiasticus, Sylvaticus, Tribura.
● (Muscicapidae; syn. Hodgsonius † White-bellied Redstart H. phaenicuroides). "Bradypterus phænicuroides, [drawing no.] 817." (Hodgson 1844); "Bradypterus Hodgson, 1844, in Gray's Zool. Miscellany, p. 83 (nom. nud.) (not of Swainson, 1837).  Type, by monotypy, Bradypterus phaenicuroides  "Hodgs." Gray, 1847." (JAJ 2021) (see Bradybates).
Var. Brachypterus.

cinnamomeum / cinnamomeus
Mod. L. cinnamomeus  cinnamon-coloured, cinnamomeous  < L. cinnamomum or cinnamum  cinnamon  < Gr. κινναμωμον kinnamōmon or κινναμον kinnamon  cinnamon.
● ex “Cinnamon Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (Attila).
● ex “Pic jaune tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 524, “Pic mordoré” of de Buffon 1770-17783, and “Ferruginous Woodpecker” of Latham 1782, and Pennant 1785 (syn. Celeus elegans).
● ex “Cinnamon Creeper” of Latham 1782 (Certhiaxis).
● ex “Cinnamon Heron” of Latham 1785 (Ixobrychus).

SUBSPECIES

Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler (cinnamomeus)
SCI Name: Bradypterus cinnamomeus cinnamomeus
cinnamomeum / cinnamomeus
Mod. L. cinnamomeus  cinnamon-coloured, cinnamomeous  < L. cinnamomum or cinnamum  cinnamon  < Gr. κινναμωμον kinnamōmon or κινναμον kinnamon  cinnamon.
● ex “Cinnamon Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (Attila).
● ex “Pic jaune tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 524, “Pic mordoré” of de Buffon 1770-17783, and “Ferruginous Woodpecker” of Latham 1782, and Pennant 1785 (syn. Celeus elegans).
● ex “Cinnamon Creeper” of Latham 1782 (Certhiaxis).
● ex “Cinnamon Heron” of Latham 1785 (Ixobrychus).

Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler (cavei)
SCI Name: Bradypterus cinnamomeus cavei
cavei
Col. the Right Revd. Monsignor Francis Orphen Cave (1897-1974) British Army in India and the Sudan, Chief of Police in the Sudan, ornithologist, collector, missionary to the Sudan (subsp. Bradypterus cinnamomeus, subsp. Calendulauda erythrochlamys, syn. Eremopterix signatus harrisoni, syn. Pternistis clappertoni gedgii, syn. Rhinopomastus aterrimus notatus).

Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler (mildbreadi)
SCI Name: Bradypterus cinnamomeus mildbreadi
mildbraedi / mildbreadi
Dr Gottfried Wilhelm Johannes Mildbraed (1879-1954) German botanist, collector in German East Africa 1907-1908, German Cameroons and Fernando Póo 1910-1911 (subsp. Bradypterus cinnamomeus).

Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler (nyassae)
SCI Name: Bradypterus cinnamomeus nyassae
nyassae
Nyassa District, German East Africa (= Tanganyika = Tanzania).