Lynes's Cisticola is a cisticola recorded in the highlands of northern Tanzania. The 2024 Clements Checklist treats it separately from Wailing Cisticola, while also noting that additional corroboration is needed.
In photographs from northern Tanzania, the pictured birds have brown heads, dark streaks on the back, and pale underparts. The page does not identify their sex or age.
The Oiseaux.net species account lists light woodland, scrub, and highland areas as habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.