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and forested areas, although it is sometimes found on the outskirts of 

 forests and along wooded riverbanks. It also occurs in very dry- 

 bush country, as indicated by a specimen from the Garissa district. 

 Meinertzhagen (1937, p. 745) found it as high as 10,000 feet in the 

 bamboo zone on Mount Kenya. In the Sudan, McDonald and Cave 

 (1948, p. 245) record it up to 10,000 feet as well, and on Mount 

 Elgon it is said to occur up to 11,000 feet (Chapin, 1939, p. 546), 

 but it is chiefly a bird of lower country. 



In the Belgian Congo it is recorded only east and south of the great 

 forest — near Kasindi, in the upper Semliki Valley, Mahagi, Nshiri, 

 Nkungu, Akanyaru River, Kasaji, at Lukafu in the Katanga, at 

 Katapena to the south of Lake Upemba, and in southern Marungu 

 (Kinia and Kampia), and at Mulungu, very near the eastern edge of 

 the great forest — inside of which it is replaced by the closely allied 

 Indicator maculatus. 



In Tanganyika Territory, Moreau considered it a denizen of the 

 tree tops in the evergreen forest community of the Usambara Moun- 

 tains. In Nyasaland, Benson (1940, p. 429) recorded it from 2,300 

 to 6,000 feet in evergreen forest, in tall luxuriant Brachystegia wood- 

 land, and in stream-side scrub; he (Benson, 1953, p. 45) also reported 

 it once in an Acacia albida tree in a cultivated area. In Northern 

 Rhodesia, White (1946, p. 73) observed it at the edges of the ever- 

 green forest. Similarly, in Southern Rhodesia, Irwin (1953, p. 40) 

 considers it more or less confined to the eastern parts of the country, 

 where patches of evergreen forest occur with some frequency. Roberts 

 records it chiefly from the southern forested areas of South Africa, 

 east and southeast in the low veldt. In Mozambique, Rosa Pinto 

 (1953, p. 40) obtained specimens at Lourengo Marques, Goba, and 

 Coguno, but he gives no details as to the type of habitat. 



Geographical range: The range of the variegated honey-guide 

 extends from the southeastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Lotti forest, 

 Imatong, Dongotona and in the Didinga Mountains up to 10,000 

 feet), south-central Ethiopia (Uanda, Goba, Gardula, Uba), and 

 southern Italian Somaliland (Dogge, Anole, Heleschid, Jonte, Ola 

 Uager, Alto Bubasci, Juba River, etc.), southwards across the eastern 

 Belgian Congo east of the great forest, Uganda, and Kenya Colony, 

 across Tanganyika Territory, Mozambique, Nyasaland, the Katanga, 

 Angola, Northern and Southern Rhodesia to the Transvaal, Natal, 

 and the eastern Cape Province, west as far as the Uitenhage area. 



In this whole area Indicator variegatus is rather local and appears 

 to be less numerous than either I. indicator or /. minor. It is divided 

 into two subspecies, the ranges of which are as follows: 



I. V. variegatus: Southeastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and south- 

 central Ethiopia, south through eastern Belgian Congo, Uganda, and 



