Grey-capped Social Weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi) [XC269112]
by Andrew Spencer from Mega - Magado Road, Ethiopia (call)
(Pseudonigrita arnaudi) [XC472385]
by Rolf A. de By from Namanga Bus Station (near Namanga), Namanga, Kajiado County, Kenya (call)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes placed in sparrow family (Passeridae).
Proposed subspecies australoabyssinicus (described from Yavello, in southern Ethiopia) is treated as synonym of nominate.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
arnaudi (Bonaparte, 1851) - Western and southern Sudan, extreme southern Ethiopia, eastern Uganda, and western and central Kenya south to north-western Tanzania.
dorsalis (Reichenow, 1887) - Northern, central and eastern Tanzania.