MALIMBUS SCUTATUS 353 



Malimbus scutopartitus, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1894, p. 38 Camaroons ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 486 (1896). 



Malimbus scutatus scutopartitus, Eeichen. Yog. Afr. iii. p. 23 (1904). 



Adult male. Forehead, crown, neck all round and the under tail-coverts 

 scarlet vermilion ; remainder of the plumage glossy black ; quills with their 

 inner margins very slightly paler. " Iris brown ; bill black ; feet greyish 

 brown " (Biittikofer). Total length 6'2 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-6, tail 

 2-3, tarsus 0-85. S < Wassaw (Blissett). 



Adult females. Differ in having the entire head black, the red being 

 confined to the lower throat, crop and under tail-coverts. Wing 3'4. Fantee 

 and Gaboon. 



Variety, M. scutopartitus, Reichen. Differs only in the feathers down the 

 middle of the red pectoral band being mottled with black. Wing 3-4. 2 , 

 Camaroons (Crossley). 



Ivimature. Differs in having the bill pale brown ; red of throat extends 

 on to the chin ; forehead and sometimes the crown is red, or mottled with 

 red. Iris brown ; bill pale brown ; tarsi and feet brown. Wing 26 to 3'4. 

 Four specimens, Fantee (Ussher.) 



Nesting. Similar to the last, but differing in the tarsi and feet being flesh 

 colour. Fantee (Higgins). 



The Red-shielded Malimbe ranges from Sierra Leone into 

 Gaboon. 



The type was discovered by MacDowell at Sierra Leone, 

 which is the most northern range known for the species, and 

 there are a male and female from this locality in the British 

 jMuseum. Demery met with it at the Sulymah River and Dr. 

 Biittikofer at many places in Liberia, where he usually observed 

 it in the forest glades. The type of M. rahropersonatus, which 

 is now in the British Museum, is a young bird of this species; 

 it was presented to me by my late friend. Governor Ussher, 

 who received all his specimens of the present species from 

 Denkera, an inland forest of Fantee. In the British Museum 

 there are also specimens collected by Godfrey Lagden in 

 Ashantee, and by Blissett at Wassaw. Pell procured the 

 species at the Boutry River and Mr. Boyd Alexander obtained 

 three examples at Fumsu ; but it has not yet been recorded 

 from Togolaud. 



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