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Vagrant to Mauritania.

Putative subspecies nigeriae (described from upper R Benue, on Nigeria-Cameroon border) considered indistinguishable from modestus.

The following 13 subspecies are recognised:

• pallidus (von Müller, 1851)   -  Semi-arid regions from Senegal and Gambia east to northern Ghana and central Mali, and northern Nigeria to western Sudan and western Ethiopia (R Baro); possibly also DRCongo (Uele District).
• modestus (Shelley, 1873)   -  Guinea and south-eastern Mali eastern (south of nominate) to western Central African Republic.
• bowdleri (Collin, A & Hartert, 1927)   -  Eritrea to central Ethiopia (south to Arussi Plateau).
• duyerali (Traylor, 1970)   -  North-eastern Ethiopia (Duyer Ali) and central Somalia (el Bur).
• parvus (Reichenow, 1907)   -  South-western Ethiopia, south-eastern Sudan (borders of R Baro), north-eastern DRCongo (possibly Uele District) and north-western Uganda (south to Masindi).
• bafirawari (Bannerman, 1924)   -  Extreme southern Ethiopia and north-eastern Kenya (Djiroko to Wajir and Garissa).
• erlangeri (Reichenow, 1905)   -  Southern Somalia (Bardera and Serenli to Hanole).
• subalaris (Sharpe, 1874)   -  Coastal and eastern Kenya (lower R Tana to Samburu) and Tanzania (coast south to Moa, inland to Amani).
• griseus (Reichenow, 1882)   -  Extreme south-eastern Kenya and central Tanzania south to northern and eastern Zambia and northern and central Malawi.
• murinus (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)   -  Gabon and PRCongo east to southern Sudan (Didinga Mts), western and southern Kenya, northern Tanzania and Uganda (except north-west), and south to north-eastern Namibia, northern Botswana, western and southern Zambia and Zimbabwe (except south-east).
• aquaemontis Stresemann, 1937   -  Central Namibia (Waterburg Plateau).
• divisus (Lawson, 1961)   -  South-eastern Zambia, southern Malawi, south-eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique (south to Delagoa Bay), north-eastern South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces) and Swaziland.
• sibilans (Clancey, 1966)   -  Southern Mozambique (south of Sul do Save) and north-eastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).

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