Dusky Indigobird (Vidua funerea) [XC641307]
by Lynette Rudman from Makana Local Municipality (near Fort Brown), Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)
Dusky Indigobird (Vidua funerea) [XC296979]
by Gary Allport from Grahamstown, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)
Interbreeds with Village Indigobird (Vidua chalybeata) in E DRCongo and with Dusky Indigobird (Vidua purpurascens) in SE DRCongo. Subspecies nigerrima has sometimes been treated as a full species.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
funerea (Tarragon, 1847) - Northern and eastern South Africa, Swaziland and extreme southern Mozambique (south of R Limpopo).
nigerrima (Sharpe, 1871) - Western Kenya, Tanzania, southern and south-eastern DRCongo, northern Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique (except extreme south) and eastern Zimbabwe.