Southern grey-headed sparrow

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| image =Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer diffusus).jpg

| image_caption = Non-breeding adult, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Passer diffusus |volume=2016 |page=e.T22718255A94573785 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718255A94573785.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Passer diffusus

| authority = (Smith, 1836)

}}

The southern grey-headed sparrow (Passer diffusus) is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the grey-headed sparrow. It is found in savanna and woodland in Angola and Zambia southwards into South Africa, where it is expanding its range{{cite book|editor=Harrison, J. A.|editor2=Allan, D. G.|editor3=Underhill, L. G.|editor4=Herremans, M.|editor5=Tree, A. J.|editor6=Parker, V.|editor7=Brown, C. J.|author=Craig, A. J. F. K.|year=1997|contribution=Southern Greyheaded Sparrow|url=http://sabap2.adu.org.za/docs/sabap1/804.pdf|title=The Atlas of Southern African Birds|publisher=BirdLife South Africa|volume=1}} and is kept as a caged bird, like its relative the white-rumped seedeater.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}