African Black-headed Oriole © flickr.com

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Proposed subspecies kikuyensis (from Nairobi, in Kenya) is synonymized with rolleti.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• rolleti Salvadori, 1864   -  Southern Sudan, western and southern Ethiopia, eastern DRCongo (to c. 2° south), Uganda, western and central Kenya, L Victoria Basin.
• reichenowi Zedlitz, 1916   -  Coastal forests of Somalia to eastern Tanzania (south to c. 9° south).
• angolensis Neumann, 1905   -  Angola and northern Namibia east to western Tanzania and northern Mozambique.
• additus Lawson, 1969   -  Coastal southern Tanzania south to coastal southern Mozambique.
• larvatus Lichtenstein, 1823   -  Southern Zimbabwe, inland southern Mozambique, Swaziland and eastern South Africa (south to southern western Cape).
• tibicen Lawson, 1962   -  Coastal southern Tanzania to southern Mozambique.

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