. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. J. H. Elgood 206 Bull. 1992 112(3). 12 3 4 Figure 1. Diagram to show the extent of the red and black areas, as seen in ventral view, in both sexes of Malimbus cassini and M. ibadanensis. 1. Entirely black $ M. cassini. 2. $ M. ibadanensis with red "collar" originally inappropriately called red "bridle". 3. c? M. cassini with red "throat" or "breast" that would seem to vary somewhat in depth (possibly related to age). 4. c? M. ibadanensis with extensive red "apron"; also subject to so
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. J. H. Elgood 206 Bull. 1992 112(3). 12 3 4 Figure 1. Diagram to show the extent of the red and black areas, as seen in ventral view, in both sexes of Malimbus cassini and M. ibadanensis. 1. Entirely black $ M. cassini. 2. $ M. ibadanensis with red "collar" originally inappropriately called red "bridle". 3. c? M. cassini with red "throat" or "breast" that would seem to vary somewhat in depth (possibly related to age). 4. c? M. ibadanensis with extensive red "apron"; also subject to some variation in extent. The posterior black area usually shows some anterior extension in the mid-ventral line. but misidentified it as cassini. This view was accepted by Marshall himself, who, in any case, had only encountered the male. Later when both Hall & Moreau (1970) and Louette (1981) gave the western limit of cassini as the Sanaga River in Cameroun, I excluded cassini from the Nigerian Check List (Elgood 1982). But ibadanensis has only been positively identified in a small area centred on Ibadan (west of the Niger), though Field (1979) in his review of the genus Malimbus shows Marchant's Owerri bird as ibadanensis in a distribution map. Marchant's Owerri record of cassini now needs reconsideration especially if the identity of the Ghana records is finally confirmed with specimens as cassini. However, the possibility that the Ghana birds were ibadanensis cannot be ruled out, since only males have been sighted. I have recently been in touch again with G. D. Donald, whose duties in the late 1950s and early 1960s with the West African Cocoa Research Institute required him to divide his time between Ibadan and Tafo, the locality of the recent Ghana sightings of cassini. Donald knew ibadanensis well in the Ibadan area and in 1960, while in Ghana, invited me to visit him at Tafo as he was convinced he had sightings there of ibadanensis. During my brief visit, however, we
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