Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus) [XC516748]
by Louis A. Hansen from Rock wall, Chita Forest, southern Udzungwa Scarp (btw Funo and Suni camps), Tanzania (call)
Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus) [XC397867]
by Peter Boesman from Plains around Chelinda, Nyika NP, Malawi (song)
Subspecies
Bradypterus cinnamomeus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Cinnamon Bracken-warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus) and Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis) following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).
Forms a superspecies with Barratt's Warbler (Bradypterus barratti) and, probably, Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis). Formerly treated as conspecific with Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis). These species and Evergreen-forest Warbler (Bradypterus lopezi) make up a group of similar Afrotropical sylviids of forest and forest edge. Subspecies ufipae of Evergreen-forest Warbler (Bradypterus lopezi) was in the past sometimes treated within present species.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
cinnamomeus (Rüppell, 1840) - Highlands of Ethiopia, eastern DRCongo (except Ruwenzori Mts), south-western and eastern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, west, central and south-eastern Kenya, and northern Tanzania (Kilimanjaro, Crater Highlands).