Grey-capped Social Weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi) [XC531234]
by isaac kilusu from Borena, Oromia, Ethiopia (call)
Grey-capped Social Weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi) [XC576126]
by Marc de Bont from Satao Elerai camp Amboseli Np, Kenya (call)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes placed in sparrow family (Passeridae).
Proposed subspecies australoabyssinicus (described from Yavello, in southern Ethiopia) is treated as synonym of nominate.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
arnaudi (Bonaparte, 1851) - Western and southern Sudan, extreme southern Ethiopia, eastern Uganda, and western and central Kenya south to north-western Tanzania.
dorsalis (Reichenow, 1887) - Northern, central and eastern Tanzania.