Olive Ibis © aerien.ch

Unknown to Equatorial Guinea (B) (NB).

Sometimes placed in genus Lampribis, together with Spot-breasted Ibis (Bostrychia rara). Subspecies bocagei often considered a full species. Subspecies rothschildi of Principé I extinct.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• olivacea (Du Bus De Gisignies, 1838)   -  Sierra Leone, Liberia.
• cupreipennis (Reichenow, 1903)   -  Cameroon, Gabon, Congo and Zaire.
• bocagei (Chapin, 1923)   -  São Tomé I. (Gulf of Guinea). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Dwarf Ibis (Bostrychia bocagei).
• akeleyorum (Chapman, 1912)   -  Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania.
• rothschildi ! (Bannerman, 1919)   -  Formerly Príncipe I. (Gulf of Guinea). Extinct ca. 1901.

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