Northern Puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) [XC139158]
by James Bradley from Menagesha National Forest, Ethiopia (call)
Northern Puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) [XC537724]
by Magnus Wadstein from Kericho Tea Estates, Kenya (call)
Subspecies
Considered to form a superspecies with Pringle's Puffback (Dryoscopus pringlii), the two being very alike in plumage and having parapatric ranges (some sympatry in southern Ethiopia). In eastern range, size decreases clinally from northern (Sudan) to southern (Itombwe); subspecies erwini rather poorly differentiated, sometimes subsumed in malzacii.
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
gambensis (Lichtenstein, 1823) - Extreme southern Mauritania and Senegambia east to western Cameroon and Gabon.