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Proposed subspecies daviesi (Eastern Cape, South Africa) included in nominate, and muhingae (south-eastern DRCongo) in neumanni. Birds of south-eastern Botswana and north-eastern South Africa sometimes separated as subspecies clanceyi. Geographical limits of subspecies difficult to establish and boundaries between listed ranges tentative.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

• saphiroi Shelley, 1900   -  South-eastern Ethiopia and north-western Somalia. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Plain-backed Pipit (Anthus leucophrys).
• goodsoni Meinertzhagen, 1920   -  Central and south-western Kenya and extreme northern Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Plain-backed Pipit (Anthus leucophrys).
• neumanni Meinertzhagen, R, 1920   -  Angolan plateau and south-central and southern DRCongo; moves south to Namibia and Botswana in the rains.
• chobiensis (Roberts, 1932)   -  South-eastern DRCongo and western Tanzania south to south-eastern Angola, extreme north-eastern Namibia, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique.
• marungensis Chapin, 1937   -  Northern Zambia east to southern Tanzania.
• namibicus Clancey, 1990   -  North-eastern and central Namibia.
• exasperatus Winterbottom, 1963   -  North-eastern Botswana; migrates to western Zimbabwe.
• vaalensis Shelley, 1900   -  Southern Botswana east to southern Mozambique, north-eastern South Africa and western Lesotho.

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