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{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Dorst's cisticola
| image = Dorst's Cisticola (Cisticola guinea).jpg
| image_caption= in Bénoué National Park, Cameroon
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=''Cisticola guinea'' |volume=2017 |page=e.T22713355A118725630 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22713355A118725630.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Cisticola guinea
| authority = Lynes, 1930<ref name = "ITIS"/>
| synonyms = 
''Cisticola dorsti'' <small>Chappuis & Erard, 1991</small><ref name = "ITIS"/> <br/>
''Cisticola ruficeps guinea'' <small>Lynes, 1930</small><ref name = "ITIS"/>
}}

'''Dorst's cisticola''' ('''''Cisticola guinea'''''), also known as the '''plaintive cisticola''', is a [[Biology:Bird|bird]] in the family [[Biology:Cisticolidae|Cisticolidae]]. It occurs in [[Place:West Africa|West Africa]] and south of Lake Chad.

[[Biology:Taxonomy|Taxonomy]] and [[Biology:Systematics|systematics]] of this bird are quite confusing. The Cisticolidae were formerly included in the "[[Biology:Old World warbler|Old World warbler]]" assemblage and placed in the family Sylviidae. Dorst's cisticola was initially named ''Cisticola dorsti'', hence the common name. The name commemorates the French ornithologist Jean Dorst.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beolens|first=Bo|title=Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds|year=2003|publisher=Christopher Helm|location=London, UK|page=94|author2=Watkins, Michael}}</ref>

Another very similar cisticola had been described some years earlier as a [[Biology:Subspecies|subspecies]] of the [[Biology:Red-pate cisticola|red-pate cisticola]] (''C. ruficeps''), and named ''C. r. guinea''. It was eventually discovered that these two taxa were one and the same, and that the song of these birds differs enough from the visually very similar red-pate cisticola for [[Biology:Reproductive isolation|reproductive isolation]]. Thus, the newly discovered population is usually considered a good [[Biology:Species|species]], and the current scientific name is ''Cisticola guinea'', although other taxonomists continue to use ''dorsti''.

Its natural [[Earth:Habitat|habitat]] is dry [[Earth:Savanna|savanna]]. This little-known bird was formerly classified as [[Biology:Data deficient|data deficient]] by the IUCN, mainly due to the uncertainty regarding its taxonomic status.<ref>BLI (2004)</ref> New research has shown it to be plentiful and widespread. Consequently, it is listed as a species of least concern in 2008.<ref>BLI (2008)</ref>

==Footnotes==
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<ref name = "ITIS">{{cite web | title = ITIS Report: ''Cisticola guinea'' | url = https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=916910 | publisher = [[Biology:Integrated Taxonomic Information System|Integrated Taxonomic Information System]] | access-date = 8 July 2016}}</ref>
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== References ==
* [[Organization:BirdLife International|BirdLife International]] (BLI) (2008): [https://web.archive.org/web/20070828022837/http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/global_species_programme/whats_new.html [2008 IUCN Redlist status changes&#93;]. Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.

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