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Vagrant to Senegal.

Proposed subspecies woltersi (described from Manhica, in southern Mozambique) is synonymized with nominate; saturata (from Bitye, on R Dja, in Cameroon) and tandae (from northern Angola) with capitalba; and kasaica (from south-eastern DRCongo) and maxima (from Chobe, in Botswana) with montana.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

• capitalba (Bonaparte, 1850)   -  Southern Sierra Leone, south-eastern Guinea, Liberia, central and southern Ivory Coast, southern Ghana east to south-western Nigeria, western and southern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, northern Gabon, southern Central African Republic, north-western DRCongo, and south-western PRCongo south to north-western Angola.
• melanota (Heuglin, 1863)   -  Southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, eastern DRCongo, Uganda, western Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and north-western Tanzania.
• montana van Someren, 1921   -  Interior of Kenya and Tanzania, south-eastern DRCongo, Zambia, Malawi, northern Botswana (Okavango Basin) and north-western Zimbabwe.
• unicolor (Fischer, GA & Reichenow, 1878)   -  Southern Somalia, coastal Kenya and Tanzania, Zanzibar and Pemba I.
• albifrons (Vigors, 1831)   -  Eastern Zimbabwe, central and southern Mozambique, Swaziland and eastern South Africa.
• saturata Sharpe, 1908   -  South-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, northern Gabon, northern Congo, south-western CAR, north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• tandae Bannerman, 1921   -  Northern Angola and extreme western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• kasaica Schouteden, 1953   -  Southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kasai).
• maxima Roberts, 1932   -  South-eastern Angola, Caprivi Strip, northern Botswana, extreme north-western Zimbabwe.
• woltersi Clancey, 1956   -  Mozambique (southern of Zambezi) and adj. eastern Zimbabwe to Zululand.

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