Black-capped Rufous-Warbler / Bathmocercus cerviniventris

Black-capped Rufous-Warbler / Bathmocercus cerviniventris

Black-capped Rufous-Warbler

SCI Name:  Bathmocercus cerviniventris
Protonym:  Apalis cerviniventris Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.22
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bkcruw1
Type Locality:  Gold Coast, West Africa.
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Publish Year:  1877
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DEFINITIONS

BATHMOCERCUS
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Black-faced Rufous-warbler B. rufus) Gr. βαθμος bathmos  step  < βαινω bainō  to walk; κερκος kerkos  tail; "Bathmocercus n. g. Timeliidarum.   Rostro mediocri, paullum decurvato; vibrissis brevibus; cauda valde gradata (rectricum numero dubio); alis brevibus, rotundatis, caudae basin superantibus, remigibus 4—7 longissimis, primo tectrices primarias multo superante, longissimorum dimidio fere aequali, tertio decimo aequali; tarsis longis, digiti medii longitudinem superantibus; pedibus extensis caudae apicem attingentibus.    Typus: Bathmocercus rufus Rchw. (Ornith. Monatsberichte, 1895, No. 6).    Bathmocercus vulpinus, sp. nov.   ...   Bathmocercus murinus, sp. nov." (Reichenow 1895); "Bathmocercus Reichenow, 1895 (3 July), Novit. Zool., 2, p. 159.  Type, by original designation, Bathmocercus rufus Reichenow.  Same generic description Reichenow, 1895 (July), Ornith. Monatsber., 3, p. 113." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 31).
Synon. Bathmedonia.

cerviniventris
L. cervinus  stag-coloured  < cervus  stag; venter, ventris  belly.