Barbets (Capitonidae)
Whyte's Barbet (Stactolaema whytii) - HBW 7, p. 181
French: Barbican de Whyte
German: Spiegelbartvogel
Spanish: Barbudo Especulado
Other common names: Sowerby’s Barbet (sowerbyi)
Taxonomy: Smilorhis whytii Shelley, 1893, Zomba, Malawi.
Forms a superspecies with S. anchietae. Six subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- whytii (Shelley, 1893) - SC Tanzania to Mozambique and SE Malawi.
- stresemanni (Grote, 1934) - SW corner of Tanzania and adjacent NE Zambia.
- terminata Clancey, 1956 - highlands around Iringa, in S Tanzania.
- whytii (Shelley, 1893) - SC Tanzania to Mozambique and SE Malawi.
- stresemanni (Grote, 1934) - SW corner of Tanzania and adjacent NE Zambia.
- terminata Clancey, 1956 - highlands around Iringa, in S Tanzania.
- angoniensis (Benson, 1964) - E Zambia to SW Malawi.
- sowerbyi Sharpe, 1898 - E Zimbabwe to extreme S Malawi.
- buttoni (C. M. N. White, 1945) - NC Zambia; almost certainly also extreme S Zaire.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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An individual initially distantly perched and preening and then a closer view of it perched in the top of a tree Locality Harare Botanical Gardens, Harare, Zimbabwe (ssp whytii)
Greg Baker 4 September 1999 1 year ago 24 sec 3
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