Red-cheeked Cordonbleu © fineartamerica.com

Vagrant to Liberia.

Proposed subspecies littoralis (described from Mombasa, in Kenya) treated as a synonym of brunneigularis.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• bengalus (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Ghana east to southern Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, south to western Cameroon, Central African Republic, north-eastern DRCongo, Rwanda and Kenya (west of Rift Valley, south to L Victoria).
• brunneigularis Mearns, 1911   -  Southern Somalia and Kenya (from L Baringo east to coast) south to north-eastern Tanzania (south to North Pare Mts and Tanga).
• ugogensis Reichenow, 1911   -  Southern Kenya (Mara) and Tanzania (from Serengeti and Mt Kilimanjaro south to Rukwa, Usanga Flats and Iringa).
• katangae Vincent, 1934   -  Southern and south-eastern DRCongo (southern Kasai, Katanga), north-eastern Angola and northern Zambia.

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