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Vagrant to Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

At least 17 subspecies have been described; pallidus synonymized with nominate and timbuktanus with nothus, also camerunensis, sudanensis and rufofuscus subsumed in armenus, and mozambicus and confusus in orientalis.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

• cucullatus (Temminck, 1840)   -  Morocco east to northern Tunisia and north-western Libya.
• senegalus (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Southern Mauritania south to Liberia, east to southern Mali (southern from Mopti), Nigeria (except far north), southern Chad and Central African Republic.
• nothus (Reichenow, 1920)   -  Borders of Sahara from central Mali east to L Chad.
• remigialis (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)   -  L Chad east to western and central Sudan (Darfur, Kordofan and central Nile Valley).
• armenus (Oberholser, 1906)   -  Southern Cameroon east to northern DRCongo, south-western Sudan (Bahr el Ghazal) and Uganda, southern in west to Angola (south to western and central Huí­la and Cuando Cubango) and, in east, to Kenya (except coast), Tanzania (except eastern lowlands), northern Zimbabwe, Malawi and north-western Mozambique.
• habessinicus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833)   -  Southern Sudan (eastern from Imatong Mts), Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and north-western Somalia.
• percivali (Ogilvie-Grant, 1900)   -  South-western Saudi Arabia, western and eastern Yemen and southern Oman.
• warsangliensis S. R. Clarke, 1919   -  Warsangli area of northern Somalia.
• kalahari (Roberts, 1932)   -  Southern Angola (eastern Huí­la east to south-eastern Cuando Cubango), northern Namibia, south-western Zambia, Botswana, north-western Zimbabwe, and northern South Africa (North West Province and western Limpopo).
• orientalis (Cabanis, 1869)   -  Southern Somalia, coastal Kenya, eastern Tanzanian lowlands, Mozambique (except Tete region), Zimbabwe (except northern and north-west), north-eastern and eastern South Africa and Swaziland.

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