Lynes's cisticola

{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | image = Cisticola distinctus - Adrien Jailloux - 465886569.jpeg | status = | status_system = | status_ref = | genus = Cisticola | species = distinctus | authority = Lynes, 1930 | synonyms = ''Collocalia lais distinctus'' }}

'''Lynes's cisticola''' ('''''Cisticola distinctus''''') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Uganda and Kenya. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Lynes's cisticola is sometimes considered as a subspecies species of the wailing cisticola (''Cisticola lais'').<ref name=hbw>{{cite web | last1=Ryan | first1=P. | last2=Dean | first2=R. | year=2017 | title=Wailing Cisticola (''Cisticola lais'') | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=http://www.hbw.com/node/58619 | accessdate=27 August 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> The vernacular name commemorates the amateur ornithologist Rear Admiral Hubert Lynes.<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|page=214|author2=Watkins, Michael }}</ref>

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Category:Cisticola Category:Birds of East Africa Category:Birds described in 1930