African Citril © flickr.com

Forms a superspecies with Black-faced Canary (Crithagra capistrata).

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• citrinelloides (Rüppell, 1840)   -  Northern Eritrea to central and southern Ethiopia.
• brittoni Traylor, 1970   -  South-eastern Sudan and extreme western Kenya. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of East African Citril (Crithagra hyposticta).
• frontalis Reichenow, 1904   -  Highlands of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda and northern Zambia. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Yellow-browed Citril (Crithagra frontalis).
• kikuyensis (Neumann, 1905)   -  South-western Kenya.
• hypostictus (Reichenow, 1904)   -  South-eastern Kenya to extreme north-eastern Zambia and Malawi. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, East African Citril (Crithagra hyposticta).

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