Papyrus Yellow-Warbler

SCI Name:  Calamonastides gracilirostris
Protonym:  Chloropeta gracilirostris Bull.Br.Orn.Club 19 p.33
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acrocephalidae / Calamonastides
Taxonomy Code:  paywar1
Type Locality:  southeastern slopes of Ruwenzori Mountains, Uganda; altitude 3,400 feet. Type from Mokia (= Muhokya), Uganda, fide W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Avium Aethiopicarum, p. 415.
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1906
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CALAMONASTIDES
(Acrocephalidae; Ϯ Papyrus Yellow Warbler C. gracilirostris) Genus Calamocætor (= Calamoecetor W. Sclater, 1936) reed warbler (cf. genus Calamonastes Sharpe, 1883, wren warbler); Gr. -ιδης -idēs  resembling; "CALAMONASTIDES, gen. nov.  Description:— General characters and feet similar to the genus Calamocætor W. L. Sclater; but general colour olive-brown and yellow, and bill rather broader.  Type of Genus:— Chloropeta gracilirostris O. Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xix. 1906, p. 133.   ...   Remarks:— A comparison of the type of Chloropeta gracilirostris with members of the genus Chloropeta show that the feet are very large and the toes and claws long; and available field-notes show that it is a swamp dweller and not a forest dweller as are Chloropeta natalensis and races and Chloropeta similis. The large feet, toes and claws agree well with those of the genus Calamocætor, which is also a swamp dweller; but as the general colour is not in agreement with the known species of Calamocætor and the bill is rather broader we are of opinion that it is best placed in a genus of its own, which would follow the genus Calamocætor" (Mackworth-Praed & Grant 1940); "Calamonastides Grant and Mackworth-Praed, 1940, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, 60, p. 91.  Type, by original designation, Chloropeta gracilirostris Ogilvie-Grant." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 82). 

gracilirostris
L. gracilis  slender; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

SUBSPECIES

Papyrus Yellow-Warbler (Papyrus)
SCI Name: Calamonastides gracilirostris gracilirostris
gracilirostris
L. gracilis  slender; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

Papyrus Yellow-Warbler (Zambian)
SCI Name: Calamonastides gracilirostris bensoni
bensoni
● Constantine Walter Benson (1909-1982) English colonial administrator, ornithologist, collector (syn. Ammomanes deserti geyri, syn. Apalis chapini strausae, syn. Apalis thoracica whitei, Calamonastides, subsp. Cinnyris fuelleborni, subsp. Cisticola chiniana, subsp. Cyanolanius comorensis, subsp. Monticola sharpei, syn. Phyllastrephus terrestris suahelicus, syn. Poeoptera kenricki, ‡Psittacula, subsp. Sheppardia gunningi).
● Rex R. Benson (fl. 1931) US collector in Panama (subsp. Basileuterus melanogenys, subsp. Catharus gracilirostris).
● Col. Harry Coupland Benson (1857-1924) US Army (subsp. Callipepla douglasii).