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This list is based on the IOC WorldBirdNames classification ver 2.10 (2011)

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1. Common Jery   Neomixis tenella
2. Green Jery   Neomixis viridis
3. Stripe-throated Jery   Neomixis striatigula
4. Red-faced Cisticola   Cisticola erythrops
5. Lepe Cisticola   Cisticola lepe
6. Singing Cisticola   Cisticola cantans
7. Whistling Cisticola   Cisticola lateralis
8. Trilling Cisticola   Cisticola woosnami
9. Chattering Cisticola   Cisticola anonymus
10. Bubbling Cisticola   Cisticola bulliens
11. Chubb’s Cisticola   Cisticola chubbi
12. Hunter’s Cisticola   Cisticola hunteri
13. Black-lored Cisticola   Cisticola nigriloris
14. Lazy Cisticola   Cisticola aberrans
15. Rock-loving Cisticola   Cisticola emini
16. Rattling Cisticola   Cisticola chiniana
17. Boran Cisticola   Cisticola bodessa
18. Churring Cisticola   Cisticola njombe
19. Ashy Cisticola   Cisticola cinereolus
20. Tana River Cisticola   Cisticola restrictus
21. Tinkling Cisticola   Cisticola rufilatus
22. Grey-backed Cisticola   Cisticola subruficapilla
23. Wailing Cisticola   Cisticola lais
24. Lynes’s Cisticola   Cisticola distinctus
25. Rufous-winged Cisticola   Cisticola galactotes
26. Winding Cisticola   Cisticola marginatus
27. Coastal Cisticola   Cisticola haematocephalus
28. Ethiopian Cisticola   Cisticola lugubris
29. Luapula Cisticola   Cisticola luapula
30. Chirping Cisticola   Cisticola pipiens
31. Carruthers’s Cisticola   Cisticola carruthersi
32. Levaillant’s Cisticola   Cisticola tinniens
33. Stout Cisticola   Cisticola robustus
34. Aberdare Cisticola   Cisticola aberdare
35. Croaking Cisticola   Cisticola natalensis
36. Red-pate Cisticola   Cisticola ruficeps
37. Dorst’s Cisticola   Cisticola dorsti
38. Tiny Cisticola   Cisticola nana
39. Short-winged Cisticola   Cisticola brachypterus
40. Rufous Cisticola   Cisticola rufus
41. Foxy Cisticola   Cisticola troglodytes
42. Neddicky   Cisticola fulvicapilla
43. Long-tailed Cisticola   Cisticola angusticauda
44. Black-tailed Cisticola   Cisticola melanurus
45. Zitting Cisticola   Cisticola juncidis
46. Socotra Cisticola   Cisticola haesitatus
47. Madagascar Cisticola   Cisticola cherina
48. Desert Cisticola   Cisticola aridulus
49. Cloud Cisticola   Cisticola textrix
50. Black-backed Cisticola   Cisticola eximius
51. Dambo Cisticola   Cisticola dambo
52. Pectoral-patch Cisticola   Cisticola brunnescens
53. Pale-crowned Cisticola   Cisticola cinnamomeus
54. Wing-snapping Cisticola   Cisticola ayresii
55. Golden-headed Cisticola   Cisticola exilis
56. Socotra Warbler   Incana incana
57. Rufous-vented Prinia   Prinia burnesii
58. Swamp Prinia   Prinia cinerascens
59. Striated Prinia   Prinia crinigera
60. Brown Prinia   Prinia polychroa
61. Black-throated Prinia   Prinia atrogularis
62. Hill Prinia   Prinia superciliaris
63. Grey-crowned Prinia   Prinia cinereocapilla
64. Rufous-fronted Prinia   Prinia buchanani
65. Rufescent Prinia   Prinia rufescens
66. Grey-breasted Prinia   Prinia hodgsonii
67. Graceful Prinia   Prinia gracilis
68. Jungle Prinia   Prinia sylvatica
69. Bar-winged Prinia   Prinia familiaris
70. Yellow-bellied Prinia   Prinia flaviventris
71. Ashy Prinia   Prinia socialis
72. Tawny-flanked Prinia   Prinia subflava
73. Plain Prinia   Prinia inornata
74. Pale Prinia   Prinia somalica
75. River Prinia   Prinia fluviatilis
76. Black-chested Prinia   Prinia flavicans
77. Karoo Prinia   Prinia maculosa
78. Drakensberg Prinia   Prinia hypoxantha
79. Sao Tome Prinia   Prinia molleri
80. Banded Prinia   Prinia bairdii
81. Black-faced Prinia   Prinia melanops
82. White-chinned Prinia   Schistolais leucopogon
83. Sierra Leone Prinia   Schistolais leontica
84. Namaqua Warbler   Phragmacia substriata
85. Roberts’s Warbler   Oreophilais robertsi
86. Red-winged Warbler   Heliolais erythropterus
87. Green Longtail   Urolais epichlorus
88. Black-collared Apalis   Oreolais pulcher
89. Ruwenzori Apalis   Oreolais ruwenzorii
90. Red-winged Grey Warbler   Drymocichla incana
91. Cricket Warbler   Spiloptila clamans
92. Buff-bellied Warbler   Phyllolais pulchella
93. Bar-throated Apalis   Apalis thoracica
94. Yellow-throated Apalis   Apalis flavigularis
95. Taita Apalis   Apalis fuscigularis
96. Namuli Apalis   Apalis lynesi
97. Rudd’s Apalis   Apalis ruddi
98. Yellow-breasted Apalis   Apalis flavida
99. Lowland Masked Apalis   Apalis binotata
100. Mountain Masked Apalis   Apalis personata
101. Black-throated Apalis   Apalis jacksoni
102. White-winged Apalis   Apalis chariessa
103. Black-capped Apalis   Apalis nigriceps
104. Black-headed Apalis   Apalis melanocephala
105. Chirinda Apalis   Apalis chirindensis
106. Chestnut-throated Apalis   Apalis porphyrolaema
107. Kabobo Apalis   Apalis kaboboensis
108. Chapin’s Apalis   Apalis chapini
109. Sharpe’s Apalis   Apalis sharpii
110. Buff-throated Apalis   Apalis rufogularis
111. Kungwe Apalis   Apalis argentea
112. Karamoja Apalis   Apalis karamojae
113. Bamenda Apalis   Apalis bamendae
114. Gosling’s Apalis   Apalis goslingi
115. Grey Apalis   Apalis cinerea
116. Brown-headed Apalis   Apalis alticola
117. Red-fronted Apalis   Urorhipis rufifrons
118. Rufous-eared Warbler   Malcorus pectoralis
119. Oriole Warbler   Hypergerus atriceps
120. Grey-capped Warbler   Eminia lepida
121. Green-backed Camaroptera   Camaroptera brachyura
122. Grey-backed Camaroptera   Camaroptera brevicaudata
123. Hartert’s Camaroptera   Camaroptera harterti
124. Yellow-browed Camaroptera   Camaroptera superciliaris
125. Olive-green Camaroptera   Camaroptera chloronota
126. Grey Wren-Warbler   Calamonastes simplex
127. Miombo Wren-Warbler   Calamonastes undosus
128. Stierling’s Wren-Warbler   Calamonastes stierlingi
129. Barred Wren-Warbler   Calamonastes fasciolatus
130. Cinnamon-breasted Warbler   Euryptila subcinnamomea
131. Black-headed Rufous Warbler   Bathmocercus cerviniventris
132. Black-faced Rufous Warbler   Bathmocercus rufus
133. Winifred’s Warbler   Scepomycter winifredae
134. Rubeho Warbler   Scepomycter rubehoensis
135. Common Tailorbird   Orthotomus sutorius
136. Dark-necked Tailorbird   Orthotomus atrogularis
137. Philippine Tailorbird   Orthotomus castaneiceps
138. Rufous-fronted Tailorbird   Orthotomus frontalis
139. Grey-backed Tailorbird   Orthotomus derbianus
140. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird   Orthotomus sericeus
141. Ashy Tailorbird   Orthotomus ruficeps
142. Olive-backed Tailorbird   Orthotomus sepium
143. White-eared Tailorbird   Orthotomus cinereiceps
144. Black-headed Tailorbird   Orthotomus nigriceps
145. Yellow-breasted Tailorbird   Orthotomus samarensis
146. Long-billed Forest Warbler   Artisornis moreaui
147. Red-capped Forest Warbler   Artisornis metopias
148. White-tailed Warbler   Poliolais lopezi
149. Yellow-bellied Eremomela   Eremomela icteropygialis
150. Salvadori’s Eremomela   Eremomela salvadorii
151. Yellow-vented Eremomela   Eremomela flavicrissalis
152. Senegal Eremomela   Eremomela pusilla
153. Green-backed Eremomela   Eremomela canescens
154. Green-capped Eremomela   Eremomela scotops
155. Karoo Eremomela   Eremomela gregalis
156. Burnt-necked Eremomela   Eremomela usticollis
157. Rufous-crowned Eremomela   Eremomela badiceps
158. Turner’s Eremomela   Eremomela turneri
159. Black-necked Eremomela   Eremomela atricollis