Habitat
Small streams and marshy patches in dry upland or montane grassland with long or short grass, bracken, brambles or Protea, and near forest edges, in fields of crops. From sea-level - 3,700 m.
Striped Flufftail (Sarothrura affinis) [XC690394]
by Lynette Rudman from Bergrivier Municipality (near Porterville), West Coast DC, Western Cape, South Africa (song)
Striped Flufftail (Sarothrura affinis) [XC395683]
by Murray Christian from Golden Gate Highlands National Park, Free State, South Africa (song)
Nest
A bowl of dry grass and rootlets built into a grass tuft.
Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Coturnicops. Forms superspecies with Madagascar Flufftail (Sarothrura insularis).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
antonii Madarász & Neumann, 1911 - Extreme southern Sudan south to eastern Zimbabwe.