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Vagrant to Lesotho.

Proposed subspecies tenuirostris (described from from Okavango region of north-western Botswana) is synonymized with crocatus, and brevior (from north-eastern South Africa) with nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• crocatus (Hartlaub, 1881)   -  South-eastern Nigeria and Cameroon east, discontinuously, to southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania (west of Rift Valley), south to southern Angola (R Cunene), north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi region), Botswana (Okavango Basin), Zambia (west of Muchinga Mts) and north-western Zimbabwe (Zambezi Valley).
• suahelicus Neumann, 1905   -  Kenya east of Rift Valley, eastern Tanzania, Malawi, eastern Zambia, eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique (north of R Limpopo).
• ocularis Smith, 1839   -  Mozambique (south of R Limpopo), eastern South Africa and Swaziland.

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