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Subspecies distinctus sometimes treated as a separate species, but is vocally identical to other subspecies of present species. Inclusion of populations from north-eastern South Africa in subspecies mashona requires further investigation. Birds from Chimanimani Mts, in eastern Zimbabwe, probably represent a local variant of latter subspecies, although superficially similar to oreobates.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

• namba Lynes, 1931   -  Western Angola.
• distinctus Lynes, 1930   -  Uganda, Kenya. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Lynes's Cisticola (Cisticola distinctus).
• semifasciatus Reichenow, 1905   -  Southern Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, Malawi and northern Mozambique.
• oreobates Irwin, 1966   -  Mt Gorongoza, in central Mozambique.
• mashona Lynes, 1930   -  Eastern highlands of Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa.
• monticola Roberts, 1913   -  Northern South Africa (Gauteng and eastern North West Province).
• lais (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)   -  Eastern South Africa and Lesotho.
• maculatus Lynes, 1930   -  Southern South Africa (southern western Cape east to Port Elizabeth).

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