Lagonosticta senegala pallidicrissa Zedlitz, Ornithologische Monatsberichte, vol. xvi, 1910, p. 173: Humpata, Huila, southern Angola. Ranges from southern and south-western Angola, western Northern Rhodesia: (including Barotseland), and adjacent northern South-West Africa (Kaokoveld, Ovamboland, northern Damaraland and the Caprivi Strip), southwards through northern and eastern Bechuanaland and western Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia, to the northern and northwestern Cape Province (mainly Vaal R. and Orange R. valleys), Orange Free State, Transvaal, parts of the eastern Cape Province, Natal (local) Zululand, Swaziland, and Sul do Save, southern Portuguese Eastern Africa.