Banded Martin

SCI Name:  Riparia cincta
Protonym:  Hirundo Cincta TablePlanchesEnlum. p.45
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Riparia
Taxonomy Code:  banmar1
Type Locality:  Cape of Good Hope, ex Daubenton, pi. 723, fig. 1.
Author:  Boddaert
Publish Year:  1783
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

RIPARIA
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ  Collared Sand Martin R. riparia) L. riparius  bank-nesting   < ripa   river-bank (cf. specific name Hirundo riparia Linnaeus, 1758); "129 HIRVNDO RIPARIA. Riparia Europaea?   Sand Martin, hirondelle des sables, Bank Martin, oiseaux de rivage ou hirondelles des rivières" (T. Forster 1817); "Riparia T. Forster, 1817, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 17 . Type, by monotypy and tautonymy, Riparia europaea Forster = Hirundo riparia Linnaeus." (Peters 1960, IX, 95).
Var. Ripaira .
Synon. Cheimonornis, clivicola, Cotile, Cotyle.

riparia / riparium / riparius
L. riparius  bank-nesting  < ripa  river-bank.
● "101. HIRUNDO.  ...  riparia.  4. H. cinerea, gula abdominque albis. Fn. svec. 247.  Hirundo riparis s. Drepanis. Gesn. av. 656. Aldr. orn. l. 17. c. 8. Will. orn. 156. t. 39. Raj. av. 71. n. 3. Alb. av. 2. p. 52. t. 56. f. B. Frisch. av. t. 18. f. 2.  Habitat in Europæ collibus arenosis abruptis, foramine serpentino." (Linnaeus 1758) (Riparia).

cincta
L. cinctus  girdled, belted, wreathed, banded  < cingere  to encircle.
● ex “Soui-manga à ceinture orangée” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (syn. Cinnyris asiaticus).
● ex “Cotinga du Brésil” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 188 (syn. Cotinga maculata).
● ex “Figuier cendré de Canada” of Brisson 1760, “Figuier à ceinture” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Belted Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (syn. Dendroica coronata).
● ex “Hirondelle brune à collier du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 723, fig. 1 (Neophedina).
● ex "Philédon à écharpe" of Dubus de Ghisignies 1839 (Notiomystis).

SUBSPECIES

Banded Martin (erlangeri)
SCI Name: Riparia cincta erlangeri
erlangeri
Victor Carl Heinrich Freiherr von Erlanger (called Carlo von Erlanger) (1872-1904) German naturalist, collector in tropical Africa 1900-1901 (subsp. Agricola pallidus, Batis, syn. Bostrychia hagedash brevirostris, syn. Calamonastes simplex, subsp. Calandrella blanfordi, subsp. Camaroptera brachyura, syn. Cinnyris erythrocercus, subsp. Cinnyris nectarinioides, syn. Cisticola lugubris, subsp. Colius striatus, syn. Coturnix coturnix africana, syn. Crithagra reichardi striatipectus, syn. Eremomela flavicrissalis, syn. Estrilda astrild peasei, subsp. Eupodotis senegalensis, subsp. Eurocephalus ruppelli, subsp. Falco biarmicus, subsp. Galerida theklae, subsp. Glareola pratincola, subsp. Gyps rueppelli, syn. Halcyon albiventris orientalis, syn. Indicator minor teitensis, syn. Laniarius nigerrimus, syn. Lanius senator, subsp. Neophedina cincta, syn. Nilaus afer minor, syn. Oenanthe melanura neumanni, syn. Otus scops, syn. Phylloscopus sibilatrix, syn. Pinarochroa sordida, syn. Plocepasser mahali propinquatus, subsp. Prinia somalica, subsp. Pterocles exustus, syn. Ptilopsis granti, subsp. Salpornis salvadori, subsp. Smutsornis africanus, syn. Sylvietta isabellina, syn. Tchagra senegalus habessinicus, syn. Turtur chalcospilos, syn. Tychaedon quadrivirgata, subsp. Tyto alba, syn. Urorhipis rufifrons smithi, syn. Zosterops poliogastrus).

Banded Martin (suahelica)
SCI Name: Riparia cincta suahelica
suahelensis / suahelica / suahelicum / suahelicus / suahelicuus
Swahili, originally a name given to the peoples of Zanzibar and the adjacent mainland coast  < Arabic sawāhil  coasts.

Banded Martin (parvula)
SCI Name: Riparia cincta parvula
parvula / parvulum / parvulus
L. parvulus  very small  < dim. parvus  small.

Banded Martin (xerica)
SCI Name: Riparia cincta xerica
xerica / xericus
Mod. L. xericus of dry land, desert-, xeric < Late L. xeros dry < Gr. ξηρος xēros dry land.

Banded Martin (cincta)
SCI Name: Riparia cincta cincta
cincta
L. cinctus  girdled, belted, wreathed, banded  < cingere  to encircle.
● ex “Soui-manga à ceinture orangée” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (syn. Cinnyris asiaticus).
● ex “Cotinga du Brésil” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 188 (syn. Cotinga maculata).
● ex “Figuier cendré de Canada” of Brisson 1760, “Figuier à ceinture” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Belted Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (syn. Dendroica coronata).
● ex “Hirondelle brune à collier du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 723, fig. 1 (Neophedina).
● ex "Philédon à écharpe" of Dubus de Ghisignies 1839 (Notiomystis).