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Malimbus scutatus scutopartitus. 



Miili)nhus scutopartitus KcHw, J. f. O., 1894, P- 3<^- — Tvpe 

 localitv ; Cameroon. 



In Southern Nigeria, Mr Lowk secured a séries of seven birds of 

 this Red-shielded Malinibe at Ijn water-works, near Lagos, in 

 Jannarv and Febrnarv 1920. 



P. A. Tai.bot obtained it in Mav 1905 at Nfamosing and there 

 is also a spécimen froni Onitsha (ex. W. A. Fokbes coll) in the 

 British Muséum. 



Dr Hartert records this bird troni Southern Nigeria (Nov. 

 Zool., XIV, 1907, p. 4t)o) from Oguta (Ansorge), Degama 

 (Ansorge), Warri (Roth), andOgrugu, Anambara creek (Braham). 



The maie is a verv handsonie bird with its scarlet head, neck, 

 breast ; and undertail-coverts; bhick cheeks, bellv and back. 



The female lacks the crimson head which is bhick, and has the 

 black' of the throat extending on to the breast, thns dividing the 

 scarlet chest dovvn the middle. 



The distribution of the two forms is as foUows : 



î. — MaI.IMBUS scutatus SCUTOPARTrrUS. 



Cf. supia. 



Range. — Cameroon, Southern Nigeria. 



2. — Malimbus scutatus scutatus. 



Scohiiis scutatus, Cassin, Proc Phil Acad., 1849, p. 157. — Type 

 localitv : Sierra Leone. 



Range. — ■ Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold, Coast. 



Distinguishin^ characters. — This northern race is distinguished 

 by the females having a crimson chest, vvithout anv trace of black 

 feathers down the middle. The maies of the two forms are indistin- 

 guishable. 



(A verv common species found in companv with Malimbus 

 rubricollis with which it is easilv confused when high up in the 

 trees. They were nesting on January loth. — W. P. L.). 



