Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris) [XC605967]
by Lars Lachmann from Ellison AH, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa (song)
Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris) [XC755410]
by Peter Boesman from Wumingu (near Wundanyi), Wundanyi, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya (song)
Subspecies
Was previously sometimes thought to form a superspecies with Yellow-tufted Pipit (Anthus crenatus), but the two species differ widely in plumage characters and ecology. Described subspecies sylvivagus included in nominate and angolensis (from Angola) in stygium. Furthermore, stygium considered by some authors to be indistinguishable from nominate.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
stygium Sundevall, 1851 - Western Angola, and disjunctly from north-western and western Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya (Taita Hills, Chyulu Hills), south-eastern DRCongo and west, eastern and southern Zambia south to north-eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, north, western and southern Mozambique and coastal eastern South Africa.
lineiventris Sundevall, 1851 - South-eastern Botswana east to north-eastern South Africa and western Swaziland.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet