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Uganda, Ruanda, Urundi, Tanganyika Territory, Northern Rhodesia, 

 and from Angola southward to the Cape so many records are available, 

 particularly from the eastern half of the continent, as to make it 

 unnecessary to do more than state that the bird is widely distributed 

 throughout in all suitable areas. The available records are fewer in 

 Angola (Gambos, Chicuma, Benguella, Kutato, Mukiwa, Lwasinawa 

 River) and still fewer in South-West Africa (Katchika, Kasane, etc.). 

 In the Union of South Africa the greater honey-guide is widely dis- 

 tributed except on the high veld and the treeless western districts. 



In a general sense and, in most parts of Africa, in an explicit sense, 

 the greater honey-guide is nonmigratory. However, in Darfur, the 

 species has been reported as somewhat seasonal. It may be that in the 

 northern edge of its range the bu'd wanders northward during the 

 nonbreeding season, from the northern savanna into the Sudanese 

 arid belt (as defined by Moreau, 1952, p. 889), and similar local move- 

 ments may occur in other portions of the continent. 



Breeding Range and Season 



The greater honey-guide has been found breeding in the following 

 places and times; however, for many areas the data are very meager 

 and the indications given for the breeding season may have to be 

 extended. 



South Africa: Many records of eggs, nestlings, and of adults col- 

 lected in breeding condition show that eggs are laid from the middle 

 of September to the second week in Januaiy, but mostly from early 

 in October to the third week in December. Records from Cape 

 Province, Natal, Zululand, and the Transvaal. 



Southern Rhodesia: Egg records from September 24 to December 

 9 (near hatching?), but the season probably extends later as an adult 

 taken on the Zambesi in December was stated by its collector to be 

 ''approaching breeding condition." 



Northern Rhodesia: A female with enlarged ovary taken at 

 Mwinilunga on March 19, and another in similar condition at Luan- 

 shya in March. 



Portuguese East Africa: A female shot 50 miles southeast of 

 Milange, Quelimane Province, on January 13 showed an ovary "com- 

 ing up fast; oviduct enlarged." 



Nyasaland: Chikwawa, September 28, egg; Mtongwe, December 

 19, fledged young; Blantyre, August 18, a year-old male "near breed- 

 ing." Also an adult female "close to breeding" on September 12 and 

 another that had "just finished laying" on April 26. 



Tanganyika Territory: Apparently breeds at least from July to 

 January. Ikoma, July 7, male with enlarged testes "coming on to 

 breed" (other specimens, same date and locahty, showed no signs of 



