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Vagrant to Israel, Japan, Maldives, Oman, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom.

Other proposed subspecies are formosae (described from Taiwan) and hainanus (from Hainan I), but both are considered inseparable from nominate. The name fuscatus, given to melanistic birds from south-eastern China and Hainan, has no taxonomic significance.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

• erythronotus (Vigors, 1831)   -  Breeds south-eastern Kazakhstan, S Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan (except south-west) east to northern and north-central India; probably also north-eastern Iran.
• caniceps Blyth, 1846   -  North-central and peninsular India and N Sri Lanka.
• tricolor Hodgson, 1837   -  Nepal and eastern India east to Myanmar, southern China (southern Xizang, Yunnan), northern Laos and northern Thailand.
• schach Linnaeus, 1758   -  Central, southern and south-eastern China (including Hainan), Taiwan and northern Vietnam (Tonkin and Annam).
• longicaudatus Ogilvie-Grant, 1902   -  Central, south-eastern and S Thailand and southern Laos, possibly also southern Myanmar (Tenasserim).
• bentet Horsfield, 1821   -  Southern Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, south-eastern Borneo and Lesser Sunda Is (east to Timor).
• nasutus Scopoli, 1786   -  Philippines (except Palawan and Sulu Is).
• suluensis (Mearns, 1905)   -  Sulu Archipelago (Jolo), in S Philippines.
• stresemanni Mertens, 1923   -  Eastern New Guinea (Huon Peninsula and adjacent hinterland, southern slopes of mountains in south-east).

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