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found that the young parasite had ejected the young barbets, which 

 he found ahve and uninjured on the ground below. He returned 

 them to the nest and stayed up in the tree to watch what might 

 happen. He remained there half an hour and nothing took place; he 

 then climbed down and had not been down five minutes when the 

 young barbets were ejected one by one at intervals of about five 

 minutes between them. He picked them up and found them living 

 and unharmed and then put them back again and removed the young 

 honey-guide. The young barbets eventually grew up. 



Campethera taenioJaema taeniloaema Reichenow and Neumann. Fine-banded wood- 

 pecker. 

 Campothera taeniolaema Reichenow and Neumann, Ornith. Monatsb., vol. 3, 

 p. 73, 1895. (Eldoma, Rift Valley.) 



Van Someren informs me (in litt.) that on two occasions he found 

 single chicks of the greater honey-guide in nests of this woodpecker 

 in the highlands of Kenya Colony. 



Campethera nubica (Boddaert). Nubian woodpecker. 



Picus nubica Boddaert, Tables des planches enlumin^ez d'histoire naturelle, 

 p. 41, 1783. (Nubia, ex Daubenton, Planches enlumin^es, pi. 667.) 



Two races of the Nubian woodpecker are recorded as victims of the 

 greater honey-guide. 



Van Someren (1916, p. 234) found an egg of the greater honey-guide 

 in a nest of the nominate race of this woodpecker at Mubendi, Uganda, 

 September 28, 1910. Unfortunately no information is given as to 

 the rest of the contents of the nest. Recently (in litt.) van Someren 

 has informed me that in Uganda, in central Kenya Colony, and in 

 the Suk district he has found this bird to be one of the most frequent 

 victims of the parasite during April and May, and that in the coastal 

 areas of Kenya he has found the pale race of this bird, Campethera 

 nubica pallida (Sharpe),^^ to be victimized by the greater honey-guide. 

 Unfortunately no more exact data are available on these observations. 



Campethera ahingoni (Smith). Golden-tailed woodpecker. 



Chrysoptilus ahingoni A. Smith, Report of the expedition for exploring Central 

 Africa, p. 53, 1836. (Port Natal, Durban.) 



Three subspecies of the golden-tailed woodpecker are reported as 

 hosts of the greater honey-guide. 



The southern, nominate race of this woodpecker is known to be 

 parasitized by honey-guides, but the identification of the parasite is 

 uncertain. Chubb (1914, p. 65) reports a set of three eggs of this bird 

 and one of a honey-guide taken at Umzinto, South Africa, in November 

 1905 by A. D. Millar. The Indicator egg from Umzinto measures 

 22.3 by 19.3 mm. and would therefore seem to agree with the eggs 



*^ Dendromus pallidus Sharpe, Ibis, ser. 8, vol. 2, p. 638, 1902. (Lamu.) 



