Red-faced cisticola
Species of bird
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The red-faced cisticola (Cisticola erythrops) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is widely present across sub-Saharan Africa (rare in southern Africa). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.
| Red-faced cisticola | |
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| Singing near the Crocodile River in Mpumalanga, South Africa | |
| Song recorded in Limpopo, South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Cisticola |
| Species: | C. erythrops |
| Binomial name | |
| Cisticola erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857) | |
Taxonomy
The red-faced cisticola was formally described in 1857 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub under the binomial name Drymoeca erythrops based on a specimen collected near Calabar in Nigeria.[2][3] The specific epithet erythrops combines the Ancient Greek ερυθρος/eruthros meaning "red" with ωψ/ōps meaning "eye" or "face".[4] The red-faced cisticola is now one of 53 species placed in the genus Cisticola that was introduced in 1829 by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup.[5]
Six subspecies are recognised:[5]
- C. e. erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857) – Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia to Central African Republic, Congo and Gabon
- C. e. pyrrhomitra Reichenow, 1916 – southeast Sudan and Ethiopia
- C. e. niloticus Madarász, G, 1914 – central Sudan
- C. e. sylvia Reichenow, 1904 – northeast DR Congo and south Sudan to Kenya and central Tanzania
- C. e. nyasa Lynes, 1930 – southeast DR Congo and south Tanzania to east South Africa
- C. e. lepe Lynes, 1930 – Angola
The race C. e. lepe, found in Angola and possibly the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has sometimes been regarded as a separate species.[6][7]
Gallery
Cisticola erythrops - MHNT
Cisticola erythrops sylvia - MHNT
Non-breeding adult at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
In Cuanza Norte Province, northern Angola
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