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Plowes (1944, p. 91) found a nest of a pied barbet near Bloemhof, 

 South Africa, on January 11, 1942, containing two eggs of the barbet 

 and one smaller one (18.6 by 15.5 mm.), apparently of an Indicator. 

 Roberts suggests that this egg may have been laid by a greater honey- 

 guide, but the identification is very uncertain, and the record must 

 therefore be looked upon as unsatisfactory. 



I know of but one other record, and it has incomplete data. In the 

 collection of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia, at Bula- 

 wayo, is a set of three eggs of the pied barbet with one attributed to 

 the greater honey-guide collected at Adelaide, Cape Province, in 

 October or November 1919. 



The pied barbet is a frequent victim of the lesser honey-guide, /. 

 minor. 



Pogoniulus pusillus pusillus (Dumont). Red-fronted tinkerbird. 



Bucco pusillus Dumont, Dictionnaire des sciences naturelle, ed. 1, vol. 4, p. 50, 

 1805. (Sandag= Sundays River, Cape Province.) 



One doubtful record. 



This Httle barbet is recorded by Layard (1876, p. 170) as a victim 

 of the greater honey-guide. The small size of the barbet might cause 

 one to wonder if the honey-guide may not have been /, minor. As a 

 matter of fact, Finn (1919, p. 198) apparently attributes this record 

 to /. minor. 



Pogoniulus bilineatus alius Friedmann. Golden-rumped tinkerbird. 



Pogoniulus bilineatus alius Friedmann, Auk, vol. 47, p. 86, 1930. (Nairobi.) 



Jackson (1938, pp. 719-720) states that van Someren has taken an 

 egg of the greater honey-guide from a nest of this barbet. This is 

 certainly a very small host and I cannot help but wonder if a greater 

 honey-guide could get into its nest to lay there. Van Someren (1916, 

 p. 238) has recorded what seems to be the same record under the name 

 Barbatula jacksoni. 



Trachyphonus vaillantii vaillantii Ranzani. Crested barbet. 



Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani, Elementi di zoologia, vol. 3, pt. 2, p. 159, 

 1821. (South Africa ex Levaillant.) 



Known as a victim of the greater honey-guide in the eastern Trans- 

 vaal and in Southern Rhodesia. At Komati Poort, eastern Transvaal, 

 Mr. Victor Pringle (in litt.) informs me that he has found the crested 

 barbet to be parasitized in November. 



At Umvukwe Ranch, Banket, Southern Rhodesia, Neuby-Varty 

 found a nest in October 1945 containing one egg of the honey-guide 

 and three of the barbet, aU hard set. The nest was in a stump sticking 

 out of a tree; the top of this stump broke off just above the nest 

 entrance, exposing the eggs. Returning four days later he found all 

 four eggs had hatched a day or two before; four days later still he 



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