Cisticola Carruthersi Bird

English Name:  Carruthers's Cisticola
Latin Name:  Cisticola carruthersi
Protonym:  Cisticola carruthersi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 23 p.94
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  carcis1
Type Locality:  Mokia (= Muhokya), southeastern Ruwenzori, Uganda; altitude 3,400 feet.
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1909
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.

carruthersi
Alexander Douglas Mitchell Carruthers (1882-1962) English explorer in Central Asia, Mongolia and the Congo, big-game hunter in Uganda, cartographer, collector (syn. Anthreptes longuemarei angolensis, subsp. Chamaetylas poliocephala, Cisticola, subsp. Cyanistes cyanus, syn. Turdoides jardineii tanganjicae).