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Vagrant to Hong Kong (China), Japan.

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Forms superspecies with African Grass-owl (Tyto capensis), with which often considered conspecific. Variation within species poorly understood, owing to rarity of specimens from whole range. Several other forms previously separated racially (walleri, oustaleti, maculosa) now included in nominate longimembris, although Australian walleri perhaps warrants recognition due to plumage differences and sexual dimorphism. Guangxi Zhuang and Guangdong population (melli) merged with chinensis. Subspecies chinensis itself sometimes included in pithecops, but probably better retained as separate subspecies.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• longimembris (Jerdon, 1839)   -  India, southern Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar; Sulawesi, Tukangbesi Is (Kaledupa), Flores, Sumba and north, central and eastern Australia.
• chinensis Hartert, 1929   -  South-eastern China (south-eastern Yunnan to Jiangsu) and Vietnam.
• pithecops (Swinhoe, 1866)   -  Taiwan.
• amauronota (Cabanis, 1872)   -  Philippines.
• baliem Ripley, 1964   -  Western New Guinea (Baliem Valley, Snow Mts).
• papuensis Hartert, 1929   -  Eastern New Guinea (central and south-eastern ranges, Huon Peninsula).

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