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Vagrant to Mali, Niger.

Introduced to Bermuda, Brazil, Cape Verde (B), Kuwait (E), Mauritius (B), New Caledonia (B), Portugal (B), Puerto Rico (B), Réunion (B), Seychelles (B), St Helena (B), Uruguay (B), USA, Vanuatu (B).

Other proposed subspecies include sousae (described from Sío Tomé, where species introduced), treated as synonym of jagoensis; schoutedeni (from Mbuji-Mayi, capital of Kasai-Oriental, in south-central DRCongo), synonymized with cavendishi; and ngamiensis (from Shorobe, in north-western Botswana), synonymized with niediecki. Subspecies adesma sometimes listed as nyansae, but under the ICZN Code this name is permanently invalid, having been replaced due to secondary homonymy prior to 1960.

The following 16 subspecies are recognised:

• kempi Bates, 1930   -  Western Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
• occidentalis Jardine & Fraser, 1852   -  Southern Mali, Ivory Coast, Bioko I (Fernando Póo), and Nigeria east to northern DRCongo.
• macmillani Ogilvie-Grant, 1907   -  Southern Sudan.
• peasei Shelley, 1903   -  Ethiopia.
• rubriventris (Vieillot, 1817)   -  Coastal Gabon south to north-western Angola.
• adesma Reichenow, 1916   -  Eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and north-western Tanzania.
• massaica Neumann, 1907   -  Central Kenya south to northern Tanzania.
• minor (Cabanis, 1878)   -  Southern Somalia, eastern Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania, and Zanzibar I.
• nigriloris Chapin, 1928   -  Swamps of south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (no published records since 1950). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Black-lored Waxbill (Estrilda nigriloris).
• cavendishi Sharpe, 1900   -  South-eastern DRCongo (except L Upemba area) and southern Tanzania south to Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
• jagoensis Alexander, 1898   -  Coastal western Angola.
• angolensis Reichenow, 1902   -  Western Angola (except coast).
• niediecki Reichenow, 1916   -  Central Angola east to south-western Zambia, northern Botswana and western Zimbabwe.
• damarensis Reichenow, 1902   -  Namibia.
• astrild (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Southern Botswana, and western and southern South Africa (North West Province south to western Cape and Free State).
• tenebridorsa Clancey, 1957   -  Northern and eastern South Africa (Limpopo south to eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal) and western Swaziland.

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