Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Heuglin, MT 1862)

Reference:
   J. f. Orn. 10, no.55 p.37

Protonym:
  Barbatula uropygialis

Type locality:
  Ain Saba, Eritrea.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101707#page/51/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  E01F4BD748FDDA20

Avibase ID:
  avibase-E01F4BD7

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/E01F4BD7

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 685916

Geographic range:

• Pogoniulus uropygialis: lowland and foothill dry woodland, acacia scrub, and riverine woodland in desert, from Eritrea, and Ethiopia, and Somalia, southward through southern South Sudan and Kenya, to north-central and eastern Tanzania
• Pogoniulus uropygialis uropygialis: Eritrea to northern and central Ethiopia and northern Somalia
• Pogoniulus uropygialis affinis: southeastern South Sudan to southeastern Ethiopia and southern Somalia, southward to northern Uganda and southern Kenya southward to the Kilifi River
• Pogoniulus uropygialis eupterus: southern Kenya southward from the Kilifi River and eastern Tanzania