Cloud Cisticola (Cisticola textrix) [XC650046]
by Dawie de Swardt from Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality (near Mount Zebra National Park), Stormberg District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (flight call)
Cloud Cisticola (Cisticola textrix) [XC686200]
by Tony Archer from Praalhoek, near Jagersfontein road, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (call)
Subspecies
Closely allied to Black-backed Cisticola (Cisticola eximius) and Dambo Cisticola (Cisticola dambo). Distinctively streaked nominate subspecies sometimes regarded as an incipient species, separate from other subspecies.
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
bulubulu Lynes, 1931 - Central Angola.
anselli White, CMN, 1960 - Eastern Angola and adjacent extreme western Zambia.
major (Roberts, 1913) - Plateau of eastern South Africa.
marleyi (Roberts, 1932) - Southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa (north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal south to St Lucia).
textrix (Vieillot, 1817) - South-western South Africa (east to Port Elizabeth).