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Roberts accepts the record; however, there is some doubt attached to 

 it, as I have recently learned that Bell-Marley often acquired sets of 

 eggs from native assistants, and this may have been such a one. 



Priest (1948, pp. 63-64) lists a set of three eggs of the rock thrush 

 and one of the greater honey-guide collected October 20, 1910. This 

 may well refer to the same nest as the above. 



Myrmecocichla aethiops cryptoleuca Sharpe. Kenya anteaterchat. 



Myrmecochichla cryptoleuca Sharpe, Ibis, ser. 6, vol. 3, p. 445, 1891. (Kikuyu.) 



Two records, both from Kenya Colony, and both not as completely 

 authenticated as to the species of Indicator as one might wish. 



Belcher (1942, p. 93) found a nest of this anteater-chat in a tunnel 

 on March 24, 1940. It contained four eggs of the builder and one 

 that was probably of /. indicator, an assumption that may be looked 

 upon as correct. A week later Belcher found another nest, also with 

 four eggs of the chat and one presumed to be of a greater honey-guide. 

 In the first instance, three of the four chat's eggs were dented as if 

 pecked; in the second case aU the chat's eggs were so damaged. 



Myrmecocichla formicivora formicivora (Vieillot). Cape anteater-chat. 



Oenanthe formicivora Vieillot, Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, 

 vol. 21, p. 421, 1818. ("Pays des Cafres," 1. e. eastern Cape Province; 

 Sundaj's River, ex Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, vol. 

 4, pis. 186, 187, 1805.) 



Two records. 



In the Albany Museum's "Guide to the Vertebrate Fauna of the 

 Eastern Cape Province" (1931, p. 159) it is stated that an egg of the 

 greater honey-guide was collected from a nest of this chat by S. B. 

 Fowlds. This set is not now to be found; it is possible that if it was 

 in the Albany Museum's collection at one time, it may have perished 

 in the disastrous fire that ravaged that institution about 12 years ago. 

 At any rate, the exact date and locality are not traceable. 



A second record, fortunately with data, has come to me from D. C. 

 H. Plowes (in litt.). At WiUow Grange, Natal, on December 18, 

 1951, he found a nest of this chat containing four eggs of the chat and 

 one of the greater honey-guide. There were small holes resembling 

 claw marks on two of the four chat's eggs. Plowes writes me that the 

 honey-guide "must have wandered quite a long way in search of a 

 nest, as the nest was in a donga on the open flats about a mile from 

 where honey-guides are normally seen, which is down in a deep 

 thorny vaUey." 



This species, like M. aethiops, builds its nest in a tunnel in the 

 slanting roof of an aardvark burrow, a location also favored by the 

 Uttle bee-eater, Melittophagus pusillus, one of the frequent hosts of 

 the greater honey-guide. 



