Cisticolas and Allies (Cisticolidae)

Levaillant's Cisticola (Cisticola tinniens) - HBW 11, p. 451

French: Cisticole à sonnette German: Vleyzistensänger Spanish: Cistícola de Levaillant
Other common names: Tinkling Cisticola(!)

Taxonomy: Malurus tinniens M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1842, Vaal River, South Africa.
Birds from SW South Africa recently described as race brookei, but this name is pre-dated by elegans. Six subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

dyleffi Prigogine, 1952 - E DRCongo (NW of Lake Tanganyika).
oreophilus van Someren, 1922 - W Kenya Highlands.
perpullus E. J. O. Hartert, 1920 - Angola, S DRCongo and W Zambia.

See all 6 subspecies

dyleffi Prigogine, 1952 - E DRCongo (NW of Lake Tanganyika).
oreophilus van Someren, 1922 - W Kenya Highlands.
perpullus E. J. O. Hartert, 1920 - Angola, S DRCongo and W Zambia.
shiwae C. M. N. White, 1947 - E Zambia, SW Tanzania and extreme SE DRCongo.
tinniens (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1842) - Zimbabwe, adjacent highlands of Mozambique and summer-rainfall area of South Africa.
elegans (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870) - SW South Africa (W of Port Elizabeth).