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Proposed subspecies hartlaubi (described from Senegal), formerly used for northern populations (east to Sudan), is regarded as synonymous with nominate.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• chalybaeus Ehrenberg, 1828   -  Southern Mauritania, Senegambia, southern Mali, Burkina Faso, southern Niger and northern Nigeria east to central Sudan; dry-season visitor to northern Ivory Coast, Togo and Benin.
• cyaniventris Blyth, 1855   -  Eritrea, Ethiopia, north-western Somalia, northern Uganda, eastern DRCongo and northern Kenya.
• sycobius (Hartlaub, 1859)   -  South-western Uganda, southern Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, south-eastern DRCongo, northern and eastern Zambia, Malawi and western Mozambique.
• nordmanni (Hartert & Neumann, 1914)   -  Southern Angola and northern Namibia east to northern and eastern Botswana, southern Zambia, Zimbabwe, north-eastern South Africa and southern Mozambique.

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