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Often treated as conspecific with disjunct Fawn-colored Lark (Calendulauda africanoides), but differs genetically and in structure (longer bill). Nominate subspecies very distinctive, separated geographically from intercedens. The two may represent different species. Described subspecies macdonaldi (southern Ethiopia) and longonotensis (eastern Uganda, western Kenya) considered synonymous with latter.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• alopex (Sharpe, 1890)   -  Northern Somalia and extreme eastern Ethiopia.
• intercedens (Reichenow, 1895)   -  Eastern and southern Ethiopia, immediately adjacent north-western and south-western Somalia, eastern Uganda, Kenya and northern Tanzania.

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