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Subspecies liturata intergrades with nominate uralensis. Several additional named subspecies considered inseparable: birds described from Carpathians (carpathica) merged with macroura; those from L Baikal to western Amurland (daurica), from Sakhalin (tatibanai) and from north-eastern China and Korea (coreensis) merged with nikolskii; those from central Honshu (momiyamae) included in hondoensis.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

• liturata Lindroth, 1788   -  Northern Europe and north-western Russia (east to about Arkhangel'sk region), south to northern Poland, Belarus and middle R Volga.
• uralensis Pallas, 1771   -  From eastern European Russia east to Okhotsk coast.
• macroura Wolf, 1810   -  Central and south-eastern Europe (from Carpathian Mts south to Bulgaria, and in western Balkans).
• yenisseensis Buturlin, 1915   -  Central Siberian plateau.
• nikolskii (Buturlin, 1907)   -  Transbaikalia east to Sakhalin, south to north-eastern China and Korea.
• japonica (Clark, AH, 1907)   -  Hokkaido.
• hondoensis (Clark, AH, 1907)   -  Northern and central Honshu.
• fuscescens Temminck & Schlegel, 1850   -  Southern Honshu south to Kyushu.
• daurica Stegmann, 1929   -  South-central Siberia and north-eastern Mongolia to western and northern Amurland (south-eastern Siberia) and western and northern Manchuria (north-eastern China).
• momiyamae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931   -  Central Honshu (Japan).

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