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Trachyphonus vaiUantii vaillantii Ranzani. Levaillant's barbet. 



Trachyphonus vailantii Ranzani, Elementi di zoologia, vol. 3, pt. 2, p. 159, 1821. 

 (South Africa, ex Levaillant = southeastern Cape Province, fide Vincent, Bull. 

 Brit. Ornith. Club, vol. 55, p. 94, 1935.) 



Two parasitized sets of eggs are in the collections of the Transvaal 

 Museum (A. Roberts, 1939, pp. 102-105) : one from Plumtree, Southern 

 Rhodesia, October 21, 1923, containing two eggs of the barbet and 

 one of the honey-guide, and one from Mokeetsi, Transvaal, October 

 29, 1928, containing three eggs of the host and one of the parasite. 

 These records are apparently the same as those listed by Priest 

 (1948, p. 64). 



Jynx ruficoUis ruficollis Wagler. South African wryneck. 



Jynx ruficollis Wagler, Naturliches System der Amphibien . . . , p. 118, 1830. 

 (KaflSrland=Uitenhage, eastern Cape Province.) 



One record. 



A set of four eggs with one of the lesser honey-guide, taken at Um- 

 songa. Natal, September 27, 1922, is now in the collection of the 

 Transvaal Museum (Roberts, 1939, pp. 102-105). The same record 

 appears to be the basis for the inclusion of the wryneck in the list of 

 hosts given by Priest (1948, p. 64). A further suggestion of interest in 

 this bird by the honey-guide is evidenced by the fact that near Kei 

 Road, eastern Cape Province, Gordon Ranger once saw a lesser honey- 

 guide perched in a tree close to an occupied nest of a wryneck. When 

 the honey-guide flew off the two wrynecks chased it out of sight. Some 

 15 minutes later the honey-guide returned to the tree but made no at- 

 tempt to get into the nest hole, and after a few minutes went off and 

 disappeared. 



Campethera nubica scriptoricauda (Reichenow). Southern Nubian woodpecker. 

 Dendromus scriptoricauda Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsb., vol. 4, p. 131, 1896. 

 (Bumi, Tanganyika Territory; Peters, Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 

 6, p. 117, 1948.) 



One record. 



A nest containing two eggs of this woodpecker and one of the lesser 

 honey-guide was collected at Chiromo, Nyasaland, November 4, 1921, 

 by C. F. Belcher (Benson, 1952a, p. 444). 



Campethera abingoni abingoni (A. Smith). Abingon's golden-tailed woodpecker. 

 Chrysoptilus abingoni A. Smith, Report of the expedition for exploring central 

 Africa, p. 53, 1836. (Port Natal; i. e., Durban, Natal.) 



One uncertain record, the uncertainty being the identification of the 

 parasite. 



Two eggs of Abingon's woodpecker with one probably of a lesser 

 honey-guide were taken by Belcher (1930, p. 168) at Nyambadwe, near 

 Blantyre, Nyasaland, September 29, 1926. The honey-guide egg 



