Cloud-scraping Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola dambo
Protonym:  Cisticola dambo Bull.Br.Orn.Club 52 p.5
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  clscis1
Type Locality:  Nasondoye, southern Belgian Congo, lat. 10 1/2° S., long. 25° E.; altitude 3,300 feet.
Author:  Lynes
Publish Year:  1931
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.

dambo
Swahili dambo  peaty wet grassland.

SUBSPECIES

Cloud-scraping Cisticola (dambo)
SCI Name: Cisticola dambo dambo
dambo
Swahili dambo  peaty wet grassland.

Cloud-scraping Cisticola (kasai)
SCI Name: Cisticola dambo kasai
kasai / kasaica / kasaicus
Kasai Province, Belgian Congo (= Zaïre = DR Congo).