Singing Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola cantans
Protonym:  Drymoeca cantans Ibis p.96
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  sincis1
Type Locality:  Abyssinia. Type, in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, from Gondar, fide Lynes, 1930, Ibis, Cisticola Suppl., p. 623.
Author:  von Heuglin
Publish Year:  1869
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.

cantans
L. cantans, cantantis  singing  < cantare  to sing  < canere  to sing.
● ex “Musicien de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 706, fig. 2, “Arada” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Musician Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Cyphorhinus arada).
● ex “Warbling Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (Euodice).
● ex “Faucon Chanteur” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 27 (syn. Melierax canorus).

SUBSPECIES

Singing Cisticola (swanzii)
SCI Name: Cisticola cantans swanzii
swanzii / swanzyi
Alfred Swanzy (1818-1879) British merchant in the West Africa trade (F & A Swanzy Co.), sponsor (subsp. Cisticola cantans).

Singing Cisticola (concolor)
SCI Name: Cisticola cantans concolor
concolor
L. concolor, concoloris  of the same colour, concolorous, similar  < cum (old form com)  together with; color, coloris  colour.

Singing Cisticola (adamauae)
SCI Name: Cisticola cantans adamauae
adamauae
Adamaua region, Cameroons and Nigeria (formerly an emirate of the Fulani empire).

Singing Cisticola (belli)
SCI Name: Cisticola cantans belli
belli
• John Graham Bell (1812-1889) US taxidermist, field ornithologist, collector (Artemisiospiza, Basileuterus).
• Raoul 'Roy' Sunday Bell (1882-1966) naturalist born on Sunday I., Kermadecs, ornithologist, photographer, collector (Laurent Raty in litt.) (syn. Chlidonias leucopterus, syn. Cuculus saturatus optatus, syn. Urodynamis taitensis).
• Dr William Abraham Bell (1841-1921) British businessman, real-estate developer in USA 1867-1890, naturalist, subscriber to the Ruwenzori Expedition (Paul Scofield in litt.) (subsp. Cisticola cantans, subsp. Pytilia melba).
• Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell (1864-1952) British colonial administrator, Administrator of Dominica 1899-1906, Commissioner for Uganda 1906-1909, Gov. of Northern Nigeria 1909-1911, Gov. of Leeward Is. 1912-1916, Gov. of Mauritius 1916-1924 (‡syn. Cyanophaia bicolor).
• R. M. Bell (b. 1908) British colonial administrator in Tanganyika 1937-1954 (syn. Eremomela icteropygialis polioxantha).

Singing Cisticola (cantans)
SCI Name: Cisticola cantans cantans
cantans
L. cantans, cantantis  singing  < cantare  to sing  < canere  to sing.
● ex “Musicien de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 706, fig. 2, “Arada” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Musician Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Cyphorhinus arada).
● ex “Warbling Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (Euodice).
● ex “Faucon Chanteur” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 27 (syn. Melierax canorus).

Singing Cisticola (pictipennis)
SCI Name: Cisticola cantans pictipennis
pictipennis
L. pictus  painted  < pingere  to paint; -pennis  -winged  < penna  wing.

Singing Cisticola (muenzneri)
SCI Name: Cisticola cantans muenzneri
muenzneri
Feldwebel (Sergeant) Max Münzner (fl. 1911) German Army in German East Africa, explorer (subsp. Campephaga quiscalina, syn. Chlorophoneus nigrifrons, subsp. Cisticola cantans, subsp. Dicrurus ludwigii, syn. Estrilda astrild cavendishi, syn. Phyllastrephus fischeri).