Black-backed Puffback © blpn.org

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Proposed subspecies chapini, described from Newington (eastern Mpumalanga), in north-eastern South Africa, is subsumed in hamatus.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• hamatus Hartlaub, 1863   -  Northern Angola, south-eastern and eastern DRCongo, northern and western Zambia, south-western Kenya (west of Rift Valley, to Kavirondo Gulf), Tanzania (except north-east), Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, and lowland north-eastern South Africa (Limpopo Province south to extreme northern and north-eastern Free State and northern KwaZulu-Natal) and Swaziland.
• nairobiensis Rand, 1958   -  East of Rift Valley in Kenya (southern from Archer's Post, east to Mt Endau, Kibwezi, and Tiva and Voi rivers) and north-eastern Tanzania (south to Kilosa, east to Usambara Mts).
• affinis (Gray, GR, 1837)   -  Southern Somalia and coastal lowlands of Kenya (extending inland to Bura and Shimba Hills) and Tanzania (south to R Rufiji), including Zanzibar I and Mafia I.
• okavangensis Roberts, 1932   -  Southern Angola, Zambia (southern from Balovale) and western Zimbabwe south to northern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana and northern South Africa (R Molopo, in northern North West Province).
• cubla (Shaw, 1809)   -  South-eastern South Africa (southern KwaZulu-Natal southern along coast to eastern western Cape).

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