Mocking Cliff Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) [XC655513]
by Dawie de Swardt from Assegaai Trails, Grahamstown, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)
Mocking Cliff Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) [XC65631]
by Lynette Rudman from Gosho Park, Marondera, Zimbabwe (song)
Subspecies
Mocking Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris) and White-crowned Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea coronata) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped as cinnamomeiventris and moved from genus Thamnolaea to the genus Myrmecocichla following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).
The following 9 subspecies are recognised:
bambarae (Lafresnaye, 1836) - Southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal and south-western Mali. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of White-crowned Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea coronata).
cavernicola Bates, 1933 - Central Mali (Mopti). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of White-crowned Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea coronata).
coronata Reichenow, 1902 - West-central. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, White-crowned Cliff-Chat (Thamnolaea coronata).
kordofanensis Wettstein, 1916 - Nuba Mts, in central Sudan.
albiscapulata (Rüppell, 1837) - Northern Eritrea and north, central and eastern Ethiopia.
subrufipennis Reichenow, 1887 - South-eastern Sudan and south-western Ethiopia south through Rift Valley and Tanzania to eastern Zambia and Malawi.
odica Clancey, 1962 - Eastern Zimbabwe.
cinnamomeiventris (Lafresnaye, 1836) - Eastern Botswana, eastern South Africa, western Swaziland and Lesotho.
autochthones Clancey, 1952 - Southern Mozambique south to north-eastern South Africa and eastern Swaziland.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet