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Subspecies landanae often treated as a separate species, on basis mainly of reddish bill colour. Most other subspecies intergrade with one another, although nominate not known to intergrade with haematocephala.

Proposed subspecies neglecta (described from Guinea-Bissau), named on basis of red cheeks of female, considered untenable; treated as a synonym of polionota; ugandae (described from Fort Portal, in Uganda) synonymized with congica.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• polionota Shelley, 1873   -  Southern Senegal, south-western Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and northern Liberia east to Nigeria.
• congica Sharpe, 1890   -  Cameroon east to southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo (Uele, Kivu) and western Uganda, south to Gabon and northern and north-eastern Angola.
• haematocephala Neumann, 1907   -  Eastern Africa from Sudan east of R Nile, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya Highlands south to Zambia, Malawi, highlands of eastern Zimbabwe, coastal Tanzania and northern and central Mozambique (north of R Save).
• landanae Sharpe, 1890   -  Cabinda and lower Congo River to north-western Angola and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• rubricata (Lichtenstein, 1823)   -  Northern and eastern South Africa, Swaziland and southern Mozambique (south of R Save).

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