Green Crombec (Sylvietta virens) [XC506102]
by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Lobeke National Park, Gran Savanna , platform, Cameroon (song)
Green Crombec (Sylvietta virens) [XC358997]
by Peter Boesman from Odumase Abrafo, Twifo, Central, Ghana (song)
Subspecies
Subspecies flaviventris sometimes thought to represent a separate species, but intergrades with nominate in Nigeria (around lower R Niger).
Proposed subspecies meridionalis (from north-western Angola) synonymized with tando.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
flaviventris (Sharpe, 1877) - Gambia, southern Senegal, southern Mali, and southern Guinea south to Liberia and east to south-western Nigeria.
virens Cassin, 1859 - South-eastern Nigeria east to south-western Central African Republic, south to Gabon and middle R Congo.
baraka Sharpe, 1897 - DRCongo (east of middle R Congo) east to southern Sudan (Bengangai Forest, Imatongs), western and southern Uganda and western Kenya (Busia District), south to extreme north-eastern Angola, Rwanda, Burundi and extreme north-western Tanzania (Bukoba).
tando Sclater, WL, 1927 - Southern PRCongo and lower R Congo south to north-western Angola (Cabinda, and Uige south to Luanda, Malanje and northern Cuanza Sul).