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Forms a superspecies with Swainson's Sparrow (Passer swainsonii), Parrot-billed Sparrow (Passer gongonensis), Swahili Sparrow (Passer suahelicus) and Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer diffusus). All are often treated as conspecific.

Subspecies mosambicus of Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer diffusus) considered by some authors to be asubspecies of Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• laeneni Niethammer, 1955   -  Mali and Burkina Faso east to western Sudan, south to northern Cameroon.
• griseus (Vieillot, 1817)   -  Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Ivory Coast and to southern Sudan, south to northern Gabon and extreme northern Central African Republic. Also Bioko I (Fernandóo Po).
• ugandae Reichenow, 1904   -  Northern Ethiopia, northern Eritrea and south-eastern Sudan south to Angola, extreme northern Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, central and north-eastern Tanzania and northern and north-eastern Zimbabwe.

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