Black-backed Cisticola (Cisticola eximius) [XC170172]
by Stratton Hatfield from Retenue de Nangbeto, Plateaux, Togo (call, song)
Black-backed Cisticola (Cisticola eximius) [XC459635]
by Peter Boesman from Narok County, Kenya (song)
Subspecies
Closely allied to Cloud Cisticola (Cisticola textrix) and Dambo Cisticola (Cisticola dambo). Birds in PRCongo, having golden-yellow crown and rump and different call, perhaps represent an undescribed subspecies.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
occidens Lynes, 1930 - Senegal eastern patchily to Nigeria.
winneba Lynes, 1931 - Coastal Ghana.
eximius (Heuglin, 1869) - Locally in PRCongo, Central African Republic, northern DRCongo, Sudan, north-western Eritrea, north-western Ethiopia, Uganda, extreme western Kenya and northern Tanzania.