Southern Senegal and southern Mauritania east to southern Sudan and northern Eritrea, south to central Ivory Coast, south-eastern Cameroon, northern DRCongo, Uganda and extreme western Kenya.
White-shouldered Black Tit (Melaniparus guineensis) [XC355593]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Station scientifique de Lamto, Ivory Coast (call)
White-shouldered Black Tit (Melaniparus guineensis) [XC268110]
by Martin St-Michel from Ntoroko, Ntoroko, Western Region, Uganda (call, flight call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Dark-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus leucomelas) and Pale-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus guineensis) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Parus leucomelas following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).
Forms a superspecies with Dark-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus leucomelas), Southern Black Tit (Melaniparus niger), Carp's Tit (Melaniparus carpi) and White-bellied Tit (Melaniparus albiventris), possibly also including White-backed Black Tit (Melaniparus leuconotus). Often considered conspecific with Dark-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus leucomelas), and the two occur in mixed flocks in Uganda, but they differ in eye colour, and no evidence of intergrades. Further research required.