Dryoscopus gambensis erwini

The northern puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae.
It is found in northern sub-Saharan Africa. It forms a superspecies with the black-backed puffback, which replaces it in eastern equatorial and southern Africa.

Habitat: Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and moist savanna.

Subspecies: There are five accepted subspecies:

• D. g. gambensis (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1823) – Senegambia to coastal Gabon
• D. g. congicus Sharpe, 1901 – lower catchment of Congo River
• D. g. malzacii (Heuglin, 1870) – eastern Cameroon to northwestern Tanzania
• D. g. erythreae Neumann, 1899 – Eritrea to South Sudan
• D. g. erwini Sassi, 1923 – Itombwe in eastern DRC