Long-tailed Bush Warbler

SCI Name:  Locustella caudata
Protonym:  Pseudotharrhaleus caudatus Bull.Br.Orn.Club 4 p.40
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Locustellidae / Locustella
Taxonomy Code:  ltbwar1
Type Locality:  Lepanto Mountains, northern Luzon.
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1895
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).

caudata / caudatus
L. caudatus  tailed, having a (long/short) tail  < cauda  tail.
● ex “Parus caudatus” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Long-tail’d Titmouse” of Ray 1713, and “Parus vertice albo, cauda corpore longiore” of Linnaeus 1746 (Aegithalos).
● ex “Merle vert à longue queue de Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Lamprotornis).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à longue queue de Madagascar” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 248, fig. 1 (syn. Terpsiphone mutata).
● ex “Courly à col blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 976, and “Grand Courlis de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Theristicus).

SUBSPECIES

Long-tailed Bush Warbler (caudata)
SCI Name: Locustella caudata caudata
caudata / caudatus
L. caudatus  tailed, having a (long/short) tail  < cauda  tail.
● ex “Parus caudatus” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Long-tail’d Titmouse” of Ray 1713, and “Parus vertice albo, cauda corpore longiore” of Linnaeus 1746 (Aegithalos).
● ex “Merle vert à longue queue de Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Lamprotornis).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à longue queue de Madagascar” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 248, fig. 1 (syn. Terpsiphone mutata).
● ex “Courly à col blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 976, and “Grand Courlis de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Theristicus).

Long-tailed Bush Warbler (malindangensis)
SCI Name: Locustella caudata malindangensis
malindangensis
Mt. Malindang, Mindanao, Philippines.

Long-tailed Bush Warbler (unicolor)
SCI Name: Locustella caudata unicolor
unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris  plain, uniform, of one colour  < uni-  single-  < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).