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Cinnyricinclus leucogaster verreauxi (Bocage). Southern violet-backed starling. 

 Pholidauges verreauxi Bocage, in Fiusch and Hartlaub, Die Vogel Ost-Afrikas, 

 p. 867, 1870. (Caconda.) 



I know of but one record, not certainly identified as to the parasite 

 (either /. indicator or /. variegatus). A. Roberts (1939, pp. 100-102) 

 writes that a set of thi-ee eggs of the starling and one of the honey- 

 guide collected on the Pongola River, Zululand, November 8, 1933, 

 is now in the collection of the Transvaal Museum. This record is 

 also mentioned by Priest (1948, pp. 63-64). 



Lamprocollus nitens culminator Clancey and Holliday. Eastern Cape red-shouldered 

 glossy starling. 

 Lamprocolius nitens culminator Clancey and Holliday, Ostrich, vol. 22, No. 2, 

 p. 114, October 1951. (Addo Bush, near Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, 

 South Africa.) 



A single instance has come to my attention, a nest containing one 

 egg of the red-shouldered starling and one of the greater honey-guide 

 found at Belmont Valley, near Grahamstown, Cape Province, in 

 December 1950 by Michael Cooke. I am indebted to C. J. Skead for 

 this record, which came to him from Dr. John Hewitt of the Albany 

 Museum. 



Lamprocolius chalybeus sycobius Hartlaub. Southern blue-eared starling. 



Lamprocolius sycohius Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith., vol. 7, p. 19, 1859. (Tette.) 



In the collections of the Transvaal Museum is a set of two eggs of 

 this glossy starling with one of the greater honey-guide (presumably) , 

 collected at Pietersburg, Transvaal, on November 11, 1933 (A. 

 Roberts, 1939, pp. 100-102). The same instance is mentioned by 

 Priest (1948, pp. 63-64). Winterbottom (1951, p. 31) lists this 

 starling as a host of the greater honey-guide. 



Spreo bicolor (Gmelin). Pied starling. 



Turdus bicolor Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 835, 1789. (Cape of 

 Good Hope.) 



This starling is a common victim of the greater honey-guide in 

 Natal and the eastern Cape Province. 



Mr. R. E. Symons collected three parasitized sets of eggs near 

 Howick, Natal, on September 16, October 5, and October 30. Each 

 consisted of four eggs of the starling and one of the honey-guide. 

 Gibbs (in litt.) informs me that at Kasuga, near Port Alfred, on 

 November 12 he found a nest containing six eggs of the starling and 

 one of the honey-guide. He saw the starling driving the honey-guide 

 out of the nest tunnel before he dug it out. 



A. Roberts (1939, pp. 100-102) records a set of two eggs of the host 

 and one of the greater honey-guide taken at Fish River, Cape Province. 

 This set is now in the Transvaal Museum. 



