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Stactolaema olivacea olivacea (Shelley). East African olive barbet. 



Barbatula olivacea Shelley. Ibis, 1880, ser. 4, vol. 4, p. 334, pi. 7. (Rabbai, 

 near Mombasa, Kenya Colony.) 



Van Someren informs me (in litt.) that he has found single nestling 

 lesser honey-guides in each of three or four nests of this barbet in the 

 coastal areas of Kenya Colony in May and June. Once he iBushed 

 an adult lesser honey-guide from a nest of an olive barbet and found 

 the nest to contain an egg of the parasite together with two eggs of 

 the host. 



Stactolaema anchietae (Bocage). Yellow-headed barbet. 



Buccanodon anchietae Bocage, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1869), p. 436, pi. 29, 

 1869. (Caconda.) 



Two subspecies of this barbet are reported as victims of the lesser 

 honey-guide, each one a single time. 



A most remarkable set of eggs of the Nyasaland race Stactolaema a. 

 whytii*^ was taken at Blantyre, Nyasaland, October 12, 1921, by 

 Sir Charles F. Belcher. According to Benson (1952a, p. 444) there 

 were three eggs of the barbet, three of the scaly-throated honey-guide, 

 and one of the lesser honey-guide. The identification of the last 

 seems fairly safe, on size characters. (See under /. variegatus, p. 104, 

 for further discussion.) 



One record for the Mashona race S. a. sowerbyi Sharpe *^ is known to 

 me — a set of three eggs of this barbet with one of the lesser honey- 

 guide collected at Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia, October 10, 1948, 

 by B. M. Neuby-Varty and now in the collection of Mr. C. H. 

 Jerome, Estcourt, Natal. I am indebted to Mr. Jerome for this 

 information. 



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

 Bucco pusillus Dumont, Dictionnaire des sciences naturelle, ed. Levrault, vol. 

 4, p. 50, 1816. (Sandag [i. e., Sundays] River, Swart Kop River and in the 

 Karrou, Cape Province.) 



This bird is listed as a victim of the lesser honey-guide by Layard 

 (ed. Sharpe, 1875-1884, pp. 169-170) on the authority of Mrs. Barber. 

 Sparrow (1936, p. 5) also lists it, but whether he had any data other 

 than Layard 's is not clear. 



Pogoniulus bilineatus (Sundevall). Golden-mmped tinkerbird. 



Megalaema bilineata Sundevall, Of v. Svenska Vet.-Akad. F6rh. (1850), 

 p. 109, 1850. (Lower Caffraria, i. e., Natal.) 



The small size of this barbet and of its nest hole would seem to 

 render it poorly fitted to be a host of the lesser honey-guide, and, 



^2 Smilorhis whytii Shelley, Ibis, ser. 6, vol. 5, p. 11, pi. 1, 1893. (Zomba, 

 Nyasaland.) 



*^ Stactolaema soiverbyi Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, vol. 7, p. xxxvi, 1898. 

 (Mashonaland, i. e., Fort Chiquequa, ex Ibis, 1898, p. 572.) 



