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Birds from eastern Zaire, Uganda and western Kenya, described as subspecies adolfifriederici, now considered indistinguishable from brunneiceps.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• castaneiceps (Sharpe, 1871)   -  Liberia east to Nigeria.
• brunneiceps (Sharpe, 1903)   -  Cameroon, Gabon and Congo through Zaire to Uganda; formerly extreme western Kenya.

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