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approaching reproductive activity); Igonda, October 14, male with 

 very enlarged testes; Iringa, January 24, female collected that had 

 "just finished laying." 



Belgian Congo: Chapin (1939, pp. 552-553) found that birds 

 collected in the Uelle district indicated that breeding extends from 

 January to April. From near Luluabourg, in the Kasai, a young 

 bird with wings and tail not fully grown, August 29; Elisabethville, 

 egg record (identification of egg to this species only inferential), 

 October 2. In the Upemba Park, males with swollen gonads have 

 been taken in June, August, and October. In districts close to the 

 equator /. indicator appears to begin breeding relatively early as 

 compared with South African birds. Both on the north and the 

 south sides of the Congo forest laying begins before the end of the 

 dry season. 



Kenya Colony: Suk area and central Kenya (Nairobi and ad- 

 jacent areas), egg records from March 24 to May, and later, as a 

 female was collected at Nairobi with an unshelled egg in the oviduct 

 on July 8; nestlings reported from April through July; a fledged 

 young bird at Lake Naivasha on November 21, and August 6; Kaka- 

 mega, breeding female collected on July 10. The situation in areas 

 like Kenya Colony and Uganda is complicated by the fact that they 

 include regions with essentially northern hemisphere seasons, south- 

 ern hemisphere seasons, and an intermediate equatorial belt where 

 the year is divisible into four parts. Thus, the actual breeding dates 

 when listed merely by country are apt to seem confusing. In northern 

 Uganda one would not expect the honey-guide to be breeding in July, 

 but from Mubendi southward it would be expected to do so from 

 July to September or October. I am indebted to Dr. Chapin for 

 helful comments on this complicated part of the range. 



Uganda: Nestlings reported April to July; adult male in breeding 

 condition in September; egg record at Mubendi on September 28; 

 Aringa, West Nile District, nearly fledged nestling, April. 



Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: Almost no information, but a female 

 with enlarged ovary taken in the Mongalla area on October 18; in the 

 Darfur area the birds were not breeding May to August, but a young 

 bird collected in that period was assumed to have been fledged, prob- 

 ably in April. 



Abyssinia: Breeds January to April (von Erlanger) ; Lake Abaya, 

 fledgling with partly grown tail feathers, September 8. 



Nigeria: Bassa, fledgling just ready to fly, April 17; Abeokuta, 

 nestling, June 4; eggs (identity "almost certain"), February. 



