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Proposed subspecies preussi (eastern Nigeria and Bioko I), with slightly darker throat than pura, seems better merged with latter.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• pura (Lichtenstein, 1823)   -  South-eastern Nigeria (Obudu Plateau), western Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea (Bioko I and Mt Alen). Also Ethiopia, south-eastern Sudan, Uganda and north-eastern DRCongo south to Malawi and adjacent north-western Mozambique.
• caesia (Lichtenstein, 1823)   -  Zimbabwe and central Mozambique to southern South Africa.
• purus (Sharpe, 1891)   -  South-eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon, Bioko I. and Equatorial Guinea; south-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia through eastern DR Congo southern to north-western Mozambique.
• preussi Reichenow, 1892   -  Humid montane forests of south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon and Bioko I.

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