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Subspecies chabarovi sometimes subsumed in ussuriensis. In Japan, proposed subspecies sitchitoensis (described from Hachijo, in Izu Is) synonymized with minor; tokumii, from Kanzaki-machi (Kanzaki-gun area, in north-eastern Saga Prefecture), in south-western Kyushu, synonymized with minor.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• sinica (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Central, eastern and south-eastern China and north-eastern and central Vietnam (eastern Tonkin and central and southern Annam).
• ussuriensis Hartert, 1903   -  North-eastern China (south-eastern Inner Mongolia east to southern Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Hebei), Korea and south-eastern Russia (southern Ussuriland).
• kawarahiba (Temminck, 1836)   -  Eastern Russia (north-central Okhotsk coast and Kamchatka), Sakhalin I, Kuril Is, and northern Japan (north-eastern Hokkaido). Non-breeding also south to south-eastern China.
• minor (Temminck & Schlegel, 1848)   -  Extreme southern Korea (Cheju-do I) and Japan (southern Hokkaido south to Kyushu, including Tsushima I and Izu Is).
• kittlitzi (Seebohm, 1890)   -  Ogasawara-shoto (Bonin Is) and Iwo Is.
• chabarowi Stegmann, 1929   -  Russian Far East (Amurland) and north-eastern China (eastern Inner Mongolia and northern Heilongjiang).

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