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Vagrant to Rwanda.

Proposed subspecies aeger (described from Aïr, in Niger) and lucidipectus (from Wad Medani, on Blue Nile in east-central Sudan) considered inseparable from nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• pulchellus (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Mauritania, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau east to Sudan, Eritrea and western Ethiopia, south to Sierra Leone, central Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Central African Republic, north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda and north-western Kenya.
• melanogastrus (Fischer, GA & Reichenow, 1884)   -  Western, central and southern Kenya and Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Gorgeous Sunbird (Cinnyris melanogastrus).

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