White-rumped Seedeater (Crithagra leucopygia) [XC317109]
by Bram Piot from Guereo, Thi\u00e8s, Senegal (song)
White-rumped Seedeater (Crithagra leucopygia) [XC598891]
by Karim Haddad from Mairi (near Maiduguri), Jere, Borno, Nigeria (call, song)
Subspecies
Has previously been placed in genus Crithagra. Following recent analysis of mitochondrial DNA, has been proposed that this species, along with Lemon-breasted Canary (Crithagra citrinipectus), Yellow-fronted Canary (Crithagra mozambica) and White-bellied Canary (Crithagra dorsostriata), be placed in a separate genus, Ochrospiza, only distantly related to other African members of present genus. However, a detailed consideration of all taxa in current genus is required before full revision can be made. Was often considered to form a superspecies with Black-throated Canary (Crithagra atrogularis), but relationships unclear. Subspecies pallens sometimes treated as a synonym of riggenbachi. Population in Rift Valley of central Ethiopia may represent an as yet undescribed subspecies.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
riggenbachi (Neumann, 1908) - Southern Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia east to southern Niger, northern Nigeria, central and southern Chad, northern Central African Republic and western Sudan.
leucopygius (Sundevall, 1850) - Central and southern Sudan, northern and central Eritrea, western and central Ethiopia, extreme north-eastern DRCongo and north-western Uganda.