Woodland Pipit

SCI Name:  Anthus nyassae
Protonym:  Anthus nicholsoni nyassae J.Orn. 54 p.233
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Motacillidae / Anthus
Taxonomy Code:  woopip1
Type Locality:  between Sangesi and Songea, southern Tanganyika.
Author:  Neumann
Publish Year:  1906
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ANTHUS
(Motacillidae; † Meadow Pipit A. pratensis) L. anthus  small bird that inhabited grasslands mentioned by Pliny, not further identified, but probably the Yellow Wagtail  < Gr. ανθος anthos  small, brightly coloured bird mentioned by Aristotle.  In Gr. myth. Anthus, son of Antinous and Hippodamia, was killed by his father’s horses and metamorphosed into a bird which imitated the neighing of horses but fled at their sight; "47. Pieper. Anthus.  Ich rechne zu dieser neuen Gattung vier Arten.   ...   Das was Frisch in der Naturgeschichte von No. III. von der Greuthlerche erzählt, gehört eigentlich zur Pieplerche (Alauda trivialis), die er Wiesenlerche nennt.  Das aber, was er von der Wiesenlerche No. IV. sagt, paßt nur auf die Brachlerche (Alauda campestris).  Das, was er von felner Pieplerche sagt, hat zwar seine Richtigkeit, allein die Ueberschrift ist falsch, und sollte eigentlich Wiesenlerche (Alauda pratensis) heißen *).  ...  *) Diese Vögel, nämlich die Brach- Piep- und Wiesenlerche haben zu vielen Irrthümern in den naturhistorischen Schriften Anlaß gegeben. Ich habe mich selbst irre führen lassen. Ich habe daher für dieselben, da sie zu auffallend von den Lerchen abweichen, eine besondere Gattung, die ich Anthus nenne, gebildet.   ...   161. Die Brachlerche oder der Brachpieper. Alauda campestris. L. Taf. 15. Fig. 2. b. (Anthus campestris, mihi." (Bechstein 1805); "Anthus Bechstein, Gemein. Naturg. Deutschl. ii, pp. 247, 302, 1805.  Type by subsequent designation of Mathews (Austral Av. Rec. ii, p. 123, 1918), Alauda campestris.  ...  This genus until recently has been quoted from Bechstein's third volume, p. 704, 1807, and the type designated by Gray in 1840 as A. spinoletta.  Under the earlier citation of Anthus, here quoted, the Water-Pipit is not mentioned, so that it cannot under the Rules be designated as the type of the genus.  The three species which are mentioned by Bechstein are A. campestris, A. trivialis, and A. pratensis.  Sharpe, in Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. x, p. 534, 1885, designated A. trivialis, but did not quote the earlier reference to Bechstein.  Mathews subsequently therefore (Austral Av. Rec. ii, p. 123, 1918) designated A. campestris, which is here accepted as the type." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, 340); "Anthus Bechstein, 1805, Gemein. Nat. Deutschl., 2, p. 247, 302, 465.  Type, by subsequent designation, Alauda pratensis Linnaeus (Selby, 1825, Illust. Brit. Orn., p. xxix)." (Vaurie in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 144).
Var. Arthur, Artthus.
Synon. Afranthus, Agrodroma, Anomalanthana, Anomalanthus, Austranthus, Caffranthus, Cichlops, Cinaedium, Corydalla, Dendronanthus, Heterura, Leimoniptera, Meganthus, Megistina, Neocorys, Notiocorys, Oreocorys, Pediocorys, Petranthus, Pipastes, Rhabdochlamys, Seiren, Spipola, Xanthocorys.

nyassae
Nyassa District, German East Africa (= Tanganyika = Tanzania).

SUBSPECIES

Woodland Pipit (schoutedeni)
SCI Name: Anthus nyassae schoutedeni
schoutedeni
Dr Henri Eugène Alphonse Hubert Schouteden (1881-1972) Belgian zoologist, explorer in the Congo (subsp. Anthus nyassae, syn. Apalis goslingi, subsp. Chlorocichla laetissima, syn. Cisticola luapula, syn. Estrilda astrild cavendishi, syn. Guttera verreauxi, subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea, subsp. Phyllastrephus cerviniventris, subsp. Phylloscopus laetus, syn. Pyrenestes ostrinus, Schoutedenapus, subsp. Sheppardia poensis, subsp. Sylvietta ruficapilla).

Woodland Pipit (nyassae)
SCI Name: Anthus nyassae nyassae
nyassae
Nyassa District, German East Africa (= Tanganyika = Tanzania).

Woodland Pipit (chersophilus)
SCI Name: Anthus nyassae chersophilus
CHERSOPHILUS
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Dupont's Lark C. duponti) Gr. χερσος khersos  barren land; φιλος philos  lover; "Shy and elusive species of arid plains with sparse vegetation" (Beaman & Madge 1998); "Cette nouvelle race, dont nous devons la connaissance à M. Dupont, naturaliste, qui l'a trouvée en Provence, a, dans son plumage et la forme de son bec, de grands rapports avec l'alouette sirli [Alaemon], qui habite l'Afrique" (Vieillot 1820); "b'. First primary very much diminished in size and not equal to half the tarsus.  c''. Bill long and slender, about as high as it is broad  at nostrils. . . .  4. CHERSOPHILUS   ...   CHERSOPHILUS.  Certhilauda, pt., auct. recent.   ...   1. Chersophilus duponti.   ...   Subsp. a. Chersophilus lusitanicus." (Sharpe 1890); "Chersophilus Sharpe, 1890, Cat. Birds Brit.Mus., 13, p. 512 (in key), p. 525. Type, by subsequent designation, Ch. duponti = Alauda Duponti Vieillot (Hartert and Steinbacher, 1933, Vög. pal. Fauna, Ergänzungsb., Heft 2, p. 129)." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 54). 

Woodland Pipit (frondicolus)
SCI Name: Anthus nyassae frondicolus
frondicolus
L. frons, frondis leaf, foliage; -cola -dweller < colere to dwell.