White-rumped Seedeater (Crithagra leucopygia) [XC390739]
by Sun Madakan from Koudougou, Centre-Ouest, Burkina Faso (call)
White-rumped Seedeater (Crithagra leucopygia) [XC253660]
by Bram Piot from Langue de Barbarie NP, Saint-Louis, Senegal (song)
Subspecies
Has previously been placed in genus Crithagra. Following recent analysis of mitochondrial DNA, has been proposed that this species, along with Lemon-breasted Canary (Crithagra citrinipectus), Yellow-fronted Canary (Crithagra mozambica) and White-bellied Canary (Crithagra dorsostriata), be placed in a separate genus, Ochrospiza, only distantly related to other African members of present genus. However, a detailed consideration of all taxa in current genus is required before full revision can be made. Was often considered to form a superspecies with Black-throated Canary (Crithagra atrogularis), but relationships unclear. Subspecies pallens sometimes treated as a synonym of riggenbachi. Population in Rift Valley of central Ethiopia may represent an as yet undescribed subspecies.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
riggenbachi (Neumann, 1908) - Southern Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia east to southern Niger, northern Nigeria, central and southern Chad, northern Central African Republic and western Sudan.
leucopygius (Sundevall, 1850) - Central and southern Sudan, northern and central Eritrea, western and central Ethiopia, extreme north-eastern DRCongo and north-western Uganda.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet