Habitat
Dense, lush grass and other vegetation, in areas with shallow mud and water, including savanna in lowland forest, grassy marshes in savanna and along lake shores, rank grass and sedge along wet drainage lines in miombo woodland, open secondary growth, moist post-cultivation.
Chestnut-headed Flufftail (Sarothrura lugens) [XC854356]
by Dries Van de Loock from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (call, agitated call)
Chestnut-headed Flufftail (Sarothrura lugens) [XC699526]
by Hans Matheve from Mutinondo Wilderness, Northern Province, Zambia (song)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Coturnicops.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
lugens (Böhm, 1884) - Cameroon to Zaire, Rwanda and western Tanzania.
lynesi Grant, CHB & Mackworth-Praed, 1934 - Central Angola and Zambia.