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Proposed subspecies togoensis (Ghana east to southern Nigeria) regarded as synonymous with permista; and kaffensis (south-western Ethiopia) with nyansae; fuelleborni (sometimes misspelt fulleborni), from western Tanzania to Zambia, is also synonymized with nyansae. Orange-naped form "quadrosi", known only from the Mozambique type specimen, is considered to be an aberrant form of loveridgei.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• permista (Reichenow, 1876)   -  Eastern Ghana east to extreme south-western Sudan, south-western Uganda, and south to northern Angola and central Zaire.
• nyansae (Neumann, 1900)   -  South-western Ethiopia, south-western Kenya and north-western Tanzania through eastern Zaire to northern Zambia and north-eastern Angola.
• loveridgei Hartert, 1920   -  Central Tanzania (Kilosa area) south to extreme eastern Zimbabwe (Mt Zelinda) and Mozambique (south to R Limpopo).
• cailliautii (Malherbe, 1849)   -  Coastal zone from southern Somalia (lower R Jubba and Boni Forest) south to north-eastern Tanzania, including Zanzibar I.

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