Black-rumped Buttonquail © hlasek.com

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Hottentot Buttonquail (Turnix hottentottus).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• nanus (Sundevall, 1850)   -  Ghana to Kenya, Uganda and south-eastern Cape Province. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Hottentot Buttonquail (Turnix hottentottus).
• lucianus Stoneham,HF, 1931   -  Mts. of South Africa (south-western Cape Province to Port Elizabeth).
• insolatus Ripley & Heinrich, 1960   -  Montane moorlands of central and southern Ethiopia.

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