Common Scimitar-bill © oiseaux.net

Birds from Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa (Transvaal, Zululand), described as intermedius, now regarded as inseparable from schalowi.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• schalowi Neumann, 1900   -  Western Uganda, western and central Kenya and southern Somalia south to Zambia and western Natal.
• cyanomelas (Vieillot, 1819)   -  South-western Angola and Namibia east to Transvaal.

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