An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso Author Boano, Giovanni Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola, cascina Vigna, I- 10022 Carmagnola (Italy) g. boano @ gmail. com boano@gmail.com Author Belemsobgo, Urbain Ministère de l’Environnement, de l’Économie verte et du Changement climatique, Avenue Pr. Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Koulouba, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Author Silvano, Fabrizio Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Stazzano, Villa Gardella, Via Aldo Fossati, 2, I- 15060 Stazzano (Italy) Author Hema, Emmanuel M. Université de Dédougou, UFR / Sciences appliquées et Technologiques, BP 176 Dédougou (Burkina Faso) and Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie animales, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso) Author Belemsobgo, Aristide Ministère des Mines et des Carrières, avenue de l’Indépendance, Koulouba, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Laboratoire de Géoressources et de l’Environnement, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso) Author Dimobe, Kangbéni Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement et du Développement rural (ISEDR), BP 176 Dédougou (Burkina Faso) Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie végétales, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso) Author Pavia, Marco Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, I- 10125 Torino (Italy) text Zoosystema 2022 2022-02-03 44 2 27 107 journal article 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2 2c04922c-82dd-4718-ab22-c9772408de9c 1638-9387 5999691 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:87C8AAD7-AD55-4CC5-B12F-0BE5A9764CAF Lanius excubitor elegans Swainson, 1832 LITERATURE. — Dowsett (1993) ; Balanca & de Visscher (1997) ; Borrow & Demey (2001 , 2014 ); Balanca et al. (2007) ; Sinclair & Ryan (2010) ; Dowsett et al. (2013) . FIELD DATA. — GBIF; WABD. STATUS. — Afrotropical migrant. REMARKS. — Often included in L. meridionalis (Temminck, 1820) , now considered monotypic (del Hoyo & Collar, 2016 ), L. e. elegans is the only subspecies certainly present in Burkina Faso as a scarce dry season visitor ( Balanca & de Visscher 1997 ; Borrow & Demey 2001 ). The presence of L. e. leucopygos Erhenberg, 1833, the subspecies breeding in Mali and Niger , in the extreme north of the Burkina Faso is also possible following Borrow & Demey (2014) . The taxonomy of the L. excubitor complex is very complicated and not fully resolved ( Olsson et al. 2010 ), and the assessment of Burkina Faso subspecies needs revision.