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Mesopicos goertae centralis Reichenow. Uganda gray woodpecker. 



Mesopicos goertae centralis Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsb., vol. 8, p. 59, 1900. 

 (Ndussuma, west of Lake Albert.) 



Van Someren (1916, p. 234) reports having taken eggs of the scaly- 

 throated honey-guide from nests of this woodpecker, and says that in 

 one nest, examined in February, he found a 3"0ung chick of the honey- 

 guide. Furthermore, years later (1950) he wrote me that he collected 

 a nestling /. variegatus from a nest of this host in May in Uganda. 

 Inasmuch as the scaly-throated honey-guide is readily identified in 

 Juvenal plumage, these records can be accepted as definite evidence 

 that the gray woodpecker is a regular host of this honey-guide in 

 Uganda. 



Mesopicos griseocephalus kilimensis Neumann. Kilimanjaro olive woodpecker. 

 Mesopicos griseocephalus kilimensis Neumann, Ornith. Monatsb., vol. 34, p. 80, 

 1926.(Kifinika, Kilimanjaro, 3,000 feet.) 



One record. 



Sclater and Moreau (1932, p. 665) state that a trained native 

 collector reported (to Moreau) seeing a j^oung Indicator variegatus, 

 side by side with a fledging of this woodpecker, being fed by the lattei 's 

 parents in the forest at Amani, Tanganjaka Territory. The collector 

 noted that both young birds were giving similar hunger calls. 



Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris cinnamomeiventris (LaFresnaye). Southern cliff -chat. 

 Turdus cinnamomeiventris LaFresnaye, Mag. Zool., vol. 6, pis. 55, 56, 1836. 

 (Cape of Good Hope, i. e., Cape Province.) 



One record, the identification of the species of honey-guide involved 

 being not wholly certain. 



Neuby-Varty informs me that he once found a nest of this clifF-chat 

 in a partly destroyed old nest of a striped swallow. In addition to 

 the eggs of the chat, which were in the process of hatching, there was 

 one hard-set egg attributed to /. variegatus. Returning three days 

 later he found the nest destroyed. This was near Banket, Southern 

 Rhodesia. 



Indefinite Host Records 



In addition to the above host records, it may be mentioned that 

 at Amani, Tanganyika Territory, Lack saw a scaly-throated honey- 

 guide attempting to enter a nest hole of Buccanodon leucotis kilimensis, 

 but he did not see it succeed in doing so. However, this barbet may 

 well be found to be a victim of the parasite. Sassi and Zimmer 

 (1941, p. 288) record a young fledged /. variegatus being fed by an 

 unidentified species of woodpecker in the Songea district, Tanganyika 

 Territory. 



In the literature, the yellow-throated sparrow, Petronia superciliaris , 

 is said to be a victim of this honey-guide, but the one known instance 



