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Has been thought to form a superspecies with Bocage's Weaver (Ploceus temporalis), or even to be conspecific, but affinities are unclear. Report of hybridization in captivity between "Olivaceous and Golden Weavers" probably refers to present species and either Holub's Golden-Weaver (Ploceus xanthops) or (more likely) African Golden-Weaver (Ploceus subaureus).

Proposed subspecies are olivaceus (described from Windvogelberg, in southern Eastern Cape) and rubricomus (from north-eastern South Africa), but male plumage exhibits considerable variation within any one colony, distribution is continuous, and size variation appears to be clinal. Therefore, naming of geographical subspecies considered unwarranted.


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