Grey Tit (Melaniparus afer) [XC415494]
by Lynette Rudman from Bankfontein campsite, Luckhof, Free State, South Africa (call)
Grey Tit (Melaniparus afer) [XC441448]
by Lynette Rudman from Aberdeen Plain, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Somali Tit (Melaniparus thruppi), Miombo Tit (Melaniparus griseiventris) and Ashy Tit (Melaniparus cinerascens). Has been considered conspecific with any one or all of those.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
afer (Gmelin, 1789) - Western South Africa (Northern Cape, western Cape) and apparently also east, central and south-western Namibia.
arens (Clancey, 1963) - Lesotho and southern South Africa (southern Free State, western eastern Cape).