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Vagrant to Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, South Africa.

Forms a superspecies with Green-breasted Pitta (Pitta reichenowi), and sometimes regarded as conspecific on basis of apparent intermediate birds from Cameroon and southern Congo, but this is doubtful.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• pulih Fraser, 1843   -  Sierra Leone and south-eastern Guinea east to western Cameroon.
• angolensis Vieillot, 1816   -  South-western Cameroon south to north-western Angola.
• longipennis Reichenow, 1901   -  Breeds from south-eastern Zaire and south-eastern Tanzania south to eastern Zambia, northern and eastern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and extreme north-eastern South Africa; migrates north to region from southern Central African Republic and northern and north-eastern Zaire east to southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

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