Blue-headed Coucal © theguardian.com

Vagrant to Mali.

• fischeri Reichenow, 1887   -  Ivory Coast and Ghana through southern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, Gabon, northern Angola and Zaire to southern Sudan, north-western Tanzania and highlands of Ethiopia and western Kenya.
• monachus Rüppell, 1837   -  Ethiopia to central Kenya.
• occidentalis Neumann, 1908   -  Guinea and Ivory Coast east to southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and northern Angola; populations of the western and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo variously attributed to occidentalis or to fisheri.

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