Brown-headed Apalis © dibird.com

Forms a superspecies with Grey Apalis (Apalis cinerea) and they have often been treated as conspecific, but are sympatric in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Subspecies dowsetti is intermediate between nominate and Grey Apalis (Apalis cinerea) in amount of white in outer tail.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• alticola (Shelley, 1899)   -  North-central Angola, southern DRCongo, northern Zambia, northern Malawi, Tanzania and south-western Kenya.
• dowsetti Prigogine, 1973   -  Marungu Mts, in south-eastern DRCongo.

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