Rachel's Malimbe Malimbus racheliae Scientific name definitions

15–17 cm. Male has orange-red forehead and crown, passing into yellow on nape; upperparts, including wing and tail, black; lores, cheek, ear-coverts, chin and throat black; large bilobed patch on breast orange in centre, yellow towards margins; belly, flanks and thighs black, undertail-coverts yellow; iris deep red; bill black; legs slate-grey. Female differs from male in having wholly black head and upperparts; orange patch on breast variable in size and in amount of yellow/orange (differences appear to be individual, rather than sex-related); under­tail-coverts dull yellow. Juvenile has top and side of head and entire upperparts black, chin, throat and breast orange, belly, flanks and thighs black, undertail-coverts buffy, iris brown, upper mandible brown, lower mandible pale, almost whitish, legs brown.

SE Nigeria, W & SW Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and NC Gabon.