Croaking Cisticola (Cisticola natalensis) [XC397956]
by Peter Boesman from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (song)
Croaking Cisticola (Cisticola natalensis) [XC762087]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Bol\u00e9ko, Lope, Ogoou\u00e9-Ivindo, Gabon (song)
Subspecies
Subspecies intergrade to some extent, especially nominate and strangei through southern Kenya, Tanzania and northern Mozambique.
Proposed subspecies kapitensis (central Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania) and littoralis (coast from south-eastern Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania) synonymized with strangei; matengorum (southern Tanzania to northern Mozambique) and vigilax (central Zimbabwe to north-eastern southern Africa) synonymized with nominate.
The following 8 subspecies are recognised:
strangei (Fraser, 1843) - Senegal to south-western Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, south-central Kenya and northern Tanzania.
tonga Lynes, 1930 - Southern Sudan.
inexpectatus Neumann, 1906 - Eritrea and central Ethiopian Highlands.
argenteus Reichenow, 1905 - Southern Ethiopia, northern Kenya and southern Somalia.
huambo Lynes, 1930 - Western and central Angola.
katanga Lynes, 1930 - North-eastern Angola, southern DRCongo, Zambia (except south-western and east), south-western Tanzania and northern Malawi.
natalensis (Smith, 1843) - South-central Tanzania, eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and eastern South Africa.
holubii (Pelzeln, 1882) - South-western Zambia, north-eastern Botswana and extreme western Zimbabwe.