| the systematics and biogeography of african tailorbirds (cisticolidae: artisornis) with comment on the choice of bayesian branch-length prior when analyzing heterogeneous data. | the long-billed tailorbird (artisornis moreaui), one of africa's rarest birds, has a strikingly disjunct distribution, the origin of which has long puzzled biogeographers. one small population (subspecies moreaui) occurs in montane forest in the east usambara mountains, a montane sky island near the coast of northern tanzania, and another (subspecies sousae) on serra jeci in northwestern mozambique, 950 km away. at both sites, the long-billed tailorbird co-occurs with its putative sister-species ... | 2017 | 28834700 |