Calamonastes Stierlingi Bird

English Name:  Stierling's Wren-Warbler
Latin Name:  Calamonastes stierlingi
Protonym:  Calamonastes stierlingi Orn.Monatsb. 9 p.39
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Calamonastes
Taxonomy Code:  miowrw3
Type Locality:  Songea, upper Ruvuma region, Tanganyika.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1901
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CALAMONASTES
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Barred Wren-warbler C. fasciolatus) Gr. καλαμος kalamos  reed; αστης astēs  singer  < αειδω aeidō  to sing; "e'.Wing much longer than tail.   g''.Tarsus strongly scutellated. . . . . .18. CALAMONASTES, p. 133.   ...  18. CALAMONASTES.  ...  Range. South Africa, extending into Central Africa.  ...  1. Calamonastes fasciolatus.   ...   2. Calamonastes undosus." (Sharpe 1883); "Calamonastes Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, pp. 94 [in key], 133. Type, by subsequent designation (Shelley, 1896, Birds Africa, 1, p. 72), C. fasciolatus = Drymoica fasciolata A. Smith." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, pp. 191-192). These small birds are sometimes known as camaropteras.

stierlingi
Dr J. Stierling (fl. 1901) German Army, senior staff physician in German East Africa 1887-1901, naturalist, collector (Mark Brown in litt.) (Calamonastes, syn. Cinnyris venustus falkensteini, Dendropicos, subsp. Psophocichla litsitsirupa, subsp. Sylvia abyssinica, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).

SUBSPECIES

Stierling's Wren-Warbler (stierlingi)
Latin Name: Calamonastes stierlingi stierlingi
stierlingi
Dr J. Stierling (fl. 1901) German Army, senior staff physician in German East Africa 1887-1901, naturalist, collector (Mark Brown in litt.) (Calamonastes, syn. Cinnyris venustus falkensteini, Dendropicos, subsp. Psophocichla litsitsirupa, subsp. Sylvia abyssinica, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).

Stierling's Wren-Warbler (olivascens)
Latin Name: Calamonastes stierlingi olivascens
olivascens
Mod. L. olivascens, olivascentis  somewhat olive  < L. oliva  olive.

Stierling's Wren-Warbler (irwini)
Latin Name: Calamonastes stierlingi irwini
irwini
● Capt. Valentine Irwin (1838-1873) British colonial administrator in India, who introduced polo to the UK (syn. Aplonis panayensis affinis).
● Michael Patrick Stuart Irwin (1925-2017) British ornithologist in Southern Rhodesia / Zimbabwe (subsp. Calamonastes stierlingi, syn. Mirafra africana gomesi, syn. Stactolaema whytii sowerbyi).

Stierling's Wren-Warbler (pintoi)
Latin Name: Calamonastes stierlingi pintoi
pintoi
● Olivério Mário de Oliveira Pinto (1896-1981) Brazilian ornithologist (syn. Aratinga maculata, syn. Megascops atricapilla, syn. Pulsatrix pulsatrix, syn. Ramphastos vitellinus ariel, subsp. Xiphorhynchus fuscus).
● Dr António Augusto da Rosa Pinto (1904-1986) Portuguese ornithologist, Director of Lourenço Marques Mus. 1953-1960 (subsp. Batis molitor, subsp. Calamonastes stierlingi, syn. Cinnyris gertrudis, subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea).