Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus) [XC425209]
by Peter Boesman from Kuloro, Kombo East, West Coast Region, Gambia (song)
Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus) [XC459163]
by Peter Boesman from Karanga River Drive, Moshi Urban, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania (call)
Subspecies
Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus), Swainson's Sparrow (Passer swainsonii), Parrot-billed Sparrow (Passer gongonensis) and Swahili Sparrow (Passer suahelicus) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include swainsonii, gongonensis and suahelicus as subspecies of Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus).
laeneni Niethammer, 1955 - Mali and Burkina Faso east to western Sudan, south to northern Cameroon.
griseus (Vieillot, 1817) - Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Ivory Coast and to southern Sudan, south to northern Gabon and extreme northern Central African Republic. Also Bioko I (Fernandóo Po).
ugandae Reichenow, 1904 - Northern Ethiopia, northern Eritrea and south-eastern Sudan south to Angola, extreme northern Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, central and north-eastern Tanzania and northern and north-eastern Zimbabwe.