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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacana" data-source="post: 2504397" data-attributes="member: 21533">As I've got very little to do with my time recently, I've been going through my list with a fine-toothed comb to make sure that all my birds fall into the right species!I've come up with a slight discrepancy with the African Bulbuls. I saw plenty of what the Sasol fieldguide calls Dark-capped Bulbuls P. tricolor in South Africa (Addo, Eastern Cape). Looking at the latest IOC list tricolor is monotypic and whilst the range info is limited, the range for the layardi subspecies of Common Bulbul seems to fit better, this also conforms with the ranges in Clements with tricolor being described as from "E Cameroon to Zaire, s Sudan, Angola, Namibia and Zambia" and layardi from "SE Kenya to e Tanzania, Zambia, ne Botswana and S Africa".Can anyone shed light on the situation? I would have a sort through the literature myself but I find myself between institutions at the moment so I haven't got access :-C</blockquote>