Cricket Longtail / Spiloptila clamans

Cricket Longtail / Spiloptila clamans

Cricket Longtail

SCI Name:  Spiloptila clamans
Protonym:  Malurus clamans Pl.Col. livr.78 pl.466 fig.2,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae /
Taxonomy Code:  crilon1
Type Locality:  Nubia.
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Publish Year:  1826
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DEFINITIONS

SPILOPTILA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Cricket Warbler S. clamans) Gr. σπιλος spilos  spot; πτιλον ptilon  feather; "Cisticolinæ  ...  Spiloptila n. g.   (Malurus clamans Rüpp. Atl.) rostro gracili culmine suturaque leviter arcuatis.  Ptilosis firmior, pallescens, maculis magnis, definitis varia (pileo tectricibusque nigris, albido marg.).  Cauda alis æqualis, pennis obtusis, 6 mediis æqualibus; utr. 3 valde gradatis; omnibus ante apicem album late nigris." (Sundevall 1872).

clamans
L. clamans, clamantis  shouting, clamorous  < clamare  to shout.