Purple-banded Sunbird © oiseaux.net

Proposed subspecies strophium, described from Manhií§a (Sul do Save), in Mozambique, considered indistinguishable from microrhynchus.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• bifasciatus (Shaw, 1812)   -  South-western Central African Republic and Gabon south, discontinuously, to western Angola (Cabinda south to Benguela, also Namibe and central Huí­la).
• microrhynchus Shelley, 1876   -  Eastern DRCongo, Uganda and Kenya south to extreme eastern Angola (north-eastern Moxico), north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi), extreme northern Botswana, eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique and eastern South Africa; Zanzibar and Mafia I, off Tanzania.

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