Levaillant's Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola tinniens
Protonym:  Malurus tinniens Verz.Samml.Vog.Kaffernl. p.13
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  tincis1
Type Locality:  Kaffirland = Likwa (Vaal) River, fide Stresemann, 1954, Ann. Mus. Roy. Congo Beige, Tervuren, n. s., 4°, Sci. Zool., 1, pp. 79, 81.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1842
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.

tinniens
L. tinniens, tinnientis  tinkling, ringing  < tinnire  to ring.
● ex “Béffroi de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 706, fig. 1, “Grand Béfroi” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Alarum Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Myrmothera campanisona).

SUBSPECIES

Levaillant's Cisticola (perpullus)
SCI Name: Cisticola tinniens perpullus
perpulla / perpullus
L. per-  very; pullus  dusky.

Levaillant's Cisticola (oreophilus)
SCI Name: Cisticola tinniens oreophilus
oreophilus
Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain; φιλος philos  loving  < φιλεω phileō  to love  < φιλος philos  lover.

Levaillant's Cisticola (shiwae)
SCI Name: Cisticola tinniens shiwae
shiwae
Shiwa Ngandu or Lake Young, Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia (= Zambia).

Levaillant's Cisticola (dyleffi)
SCI Name: Cisticola tinniens dyleffi
dyleffi
Dr Pyotr Konstantinovich Dyleff (1888-1978) Russian physician in Ubangi-Shari and French Congo 1925-1933, and the Belgian Congo 1933-1942, 1945-1961 (subsp. Cisticola tinniens).

Levaillant's Cisticola (tinniens)
SCI Name: Cisticola tinniens tinniens
tinniens
L. tinniens, tinnientis  tinkling, ringing  < tinnire  to ring.
● ex “Béffroi de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 706, fig. 1, “Grand Béfroi” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Alarum Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Myrmothera campanisona).