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Vagrant to Senegal.

Proposed subspecies tessmanni (Central African Republic) not distinguishable from chrysura; nor annectens (lower Congo and central Angola to Rwanda and Malawi) from nominate. In past, type locality of species erroneously listed as Durban, Natal; with rectification, hitherto accepted name smithii becomes junior synonym of nominate.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• chrysura (Swainson, 1837)   -  Senegambia and northern Guinea, and recently recorded in north-eastern Ivory Coast. Also Central African Republic, southern Sudan, north-eastern Zaire and western Uganda.
• abingoni (Smith, 1836)   -  Lower R Congo and western Zaire east to western Tanzania, and south to north-eastern Namibia, north-western Zambia, Zimbabwe and northern Transvaal.
• kavirondensis van Someren, 1926   -  Eastern Rwanda, north-western and north-central Tanzania and south-western Kenya.
• suahelica (Reichenow, 1902)   -  Northern Tanzania (Arusha, Moshi, northern Pare Mts) to eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique and northern Swaziland.
• anderssoni (Roberts, 1936)   -  South-western Angola, Namibia (except north-east) and south-western Botswana to northern Cape Province and south-western Transvaal.
• constricta Clancey, 1965   -  Southern Swaziland, extreme southern Mozambique and Natal.

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