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Birds from Angola and western Zambia, described as subspecies anomalus, now considered inseparable from anchietae; those from Sudan described as cavei apparently inseparable from notatus.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• aterrimus (Stephens, 1826)   -  Senegambia east to western Sudan.
• emini (Neumann, 1905)   -  Central Sudan to north-eastern Zaire and Uganda.
• notatus (Salvin, 1892)   -  Eastern Sudan and Ethiopia; recently recorded also in north-western Somalia.
• anchietae (Barboza du Bocage, 1892)   -  Southern Zaire and Angola to western Zambia.

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