Trilling Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola woosnami
Protonym:  Cisticola woosnami Bull.Br.Orn.Club 21 p.72
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  tricis1
Type Locality:  southeastern Ruwenzori; altitude 3,400 feet. Type, in British Museum (Natural History), from Mokia (= Muhokya), near Lake George, Uganda, fide Lynes, 1930, Ibis, Cisticola Suppl., p. 672.
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1908
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.

woosnami
Maj. Richard Bowen Woosnam (1880–1915) British Army in South Africa and the Dardanelles, collector, explorer in tropical Africa and the Middle East (subsp. Alethe castanea, subsp. Bleda syndactylus, Cisticola).

SUBSPECIES

Trilling Cisticola (woosnami)
SCI Name: Cisticola woosnami woosnami
woosnami
Maj. Richard Bowen Woosnam (1880–1915) British Army in South Africa and the Dardanelles, collector, explorer in tropical Africa and the Middle East (subsp. Alethe castanea, subsp. Bleda syndactylus, Cisticola).

Trilling Cisticola (lufira)
SCI Name: Cisticola woosnami lufira
lufira
Lufira River, Upper Luapula District, Belgian Congo (= DR Congo).