Brown-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus) [XC292035]
by id from Dirkiesdorp Road, Mpumalanga, South Africa (call)
Brown-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus) [XC604518]
by Dries Van de Loock from Ditsobotla Local Municipality, Ngaka Modiri Molema, North West, South Africa (call)
Subspecies
No very close relatives. Forms named as peasei and adustoides are synonyms of nominate; caurinus synonymous with camerunensis.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
camerunensis Reichenow, 1921 - Disjunctly from Guinea east to south-eastern Nigeria, thence east to northern Cameroon and western Central African Republic.
regulus Sundevall, 1850 - East-central Sudan and south-western Ethiopia southern (to east of forest) to southern Zaire, Angola and north-eastern Namibia, east to Indian Ocean coast and south to eastern Cape Province; recorded once in north-western Somalia.