Splendid Starling (Lamprotornis) [XC99716]
by Mike Nelson from Capitol Residence Hotel, Buea, Cameroon (call)
Splendid Starling (Lamprotornis splendidus) [XC138681]
by Phil Gregory from Botanical Gardens Entebbe, Wakisso District, Uganda (call)
Subspecies
Subspecies bailundensis intergrades with nominate in northern Angola (Malanje).
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
chrysonotis Swainson, 1837 - From Senegal eastern along coast to southern Togo.
splendidus (Vieillot, 1822) - Southern Benin, Nigeria, Príncipe I (in Gulf of Guinea) and central and southern Cameroon east to southern Sudan and western Ethiopia, south to PRCongo, northern Angola, central DRCongo, Uganda, western Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and north-western Tanzania.
lessoni (Pucheran, 1858) - Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
bailundensis (Neumann, 1920) - Northern and eastern Angola, southern DRCongo and Zambia.