Chinspot Batis © flickr.com

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Proposed subspecies montana (from Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania), taruensis (from south-eastern Kenya) and mystica (from Ukamba, in Kenya) considered synonymous with puella.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• pintoi Lawson, 1966   -  Gabon (Djambala), PRCongo, Angola (Dinge area of Cabinda, also inland areas), south-western DRCongo (Ngombe, in extreme western Kasai, possibly also extreme south-western Katanga) and north-western Zambia (Mwinilunga area).
• puella Reichenow, 1893   -  Southern Sudan (Didinga Mts), and north-eastern DRCongo (Kivu), Uganda and Rwanda east to western and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania (east to Kilimanjaro region).
• palliditergum Clancey, 1955   -  South-eastern DRCongo (Katanga), Zambia, Malawi and southern Tanzania south to southern Angola (Cunene and Namibe), northern Namibia, eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique (middle Zambezi and south-western regions), northern South Africa and northern Lesotho.
• molitor Küster, 1850   -  Southern Mozambique, Swaziland and eastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal south to Port Elizabeth region of eastern Cape).

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