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Vagrant to Liberia.

Proposed subspecies hilgerti (described from R Kassam, in eastern Ethiopia) synonymized with minor.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

• afer (Latham, 1801)   -  Southern Mauritania and Senegal east to Eritrea and north-western Ethiopia, south to north-western and central Cameroon, western and north-western Central African Republic and north-western Uganda; dry-season visitor in coastal Liberia and Ghana.
• camerunensis Neumann, 1907   -  Cameroon highlands, southern Central African Republic, and northern and north-eastern DRCongo (east to northern end of L Albert).
• minor Sharpe, 1895   -  South-eastern Sudan, south-eastern Ethiopia, Somalia (except north-east), plateau country in northern and eastern Kenya (south to Kerio valley, Baringo, Isiolo, Tsavo and Taru), and north-eastern Tanzania.
• massaicus Neumann, 1907   -  North-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Kenya (except northern and east) and northern Tanzania (Serengeti south to Shinyanga).
• affinis Barboza du Bocage, 1878   -  Northern Angola and southern DRCongo (Kasai, and Katanga east to Mt Kabobo).
• nigritemporalis Reichenow, 1892   -  Eastern Angola, southern and south-eastern DRCongo and Tanzania (except far north-western and north-east) south to Zambia (except extreme south-west), Zimbabwe (in middle Zambezi valley), Malawi and Mozambique (except extreme south).
• brubru (Latham, 1801)   -  South-western and western Angola, extreme south-western Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, western Zimbabwe, northern South Africa (western Limpopo south to extreme northern Northern Cape and western Free State) and western Swaziland.
• solivagus Clancey, 1958   -  Central plateau of Zimbabwe, south-western Mozambique (western Sul do Save), northern South Africa (northern and eastern Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal) and eastern Swaziland.
• miombensis Clancey, 1971   -  Extreme south-eastern Zimbabwe (around Marhumbini), south-eastern Mozambique lowlands and north-eastern South Africa (coastal KwaZulu-Natal).
• hilgerti Neumann, 1907   -  Eastern Ethiopia.

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