Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini) [XC395941]
by James Bradley from Gembe Hills, Kenya (call)
Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini) [XC719024]
by Peter Boesman from Tongo Hills, Upper East, Ghana (song)
Subspecies
Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans) and Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Cisticola aberrans following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans).
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
admiralis Bates, 1930 - Locally from southern Mauritania, Guinea and Mali east to Ghana, Togo and northern Benin. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans).
petrophilus Alexander, 1907 - Nigeria and Cameroon east to southern Sudan and north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans).
emini Reichenow, 1892 - Western, central. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Lazy Cisticola (Cisticola aberrans).
bailunduensis Neumann, 1931 - Western Angola. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Huambo Cisticola (Cisticola bailunduensis).