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exilis is recorded from Idjwe Island in Lake Kivn, while a specimen 

 identified as pachyrhynchus has been taken at Mulungu in the high- 

 lands west of that lake. 



I. e. pachyrhynchus: ^^ The Bahr-el-Ghazal and Upper Nile areas 

 of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Bongo, Wau, Tembura), southeast- 

 wards across Uganda (Mabira forest, Kakamari, Luankuba forest in 

 Ankole, Lugalambo, Lake Victoria) to northwestern Tanganyika 

 Territory (Bukoba), probably to Ruanda, to the highlands west of 

 Lake Edward and Lake Kivu, Belgian Congo (Mulungu, Lutunguru, 

 Dundazi, Tshibinda), and to the western part of Kenya Colony 

 (Sotik, 7,500 feet, and Kakamega to Mau forest), and to northwestern 

 Northern Rhodesia (Kansoku, lat. 12°22' S., long. 24°05' E.) (appar- 

 ently skirting eastwards and southwards around the range of exilis!). 



I. e. meliphilus: ^® The Elgon area of extreme eastern Uganda 

 (Mount Moroto, Soronko River) and Kenya Colony from Turkana- 

 land (Kacheliba) and the drier, lower parts of the Suk area, east to 

 Taveta, south in suitable spots in Tanganyika Territory (Moa near 

 Amani, western Usambara Mountains, Kidugallo (between Morogoro 

 and Dar-es-Salaam)), Nyasaland (Cholo, Ndirande, Mlanje), Mozam- 

 bique (near Zobue, Kirk Mountains), Northern Rhodesia (Mwini- 

 lunga, Kabompo River, Fort Jameson), and Angola (Chitau, Tye- 

 humbwe, Ebanga, and Quibula near Benguella). In areas such as 

 western Kenya Colony and Northern Rhodesia where meliphilus and 

 pachyrhynchus approach each other, the latter is probably in the 

 patches of evergreen forests while the former is in the more open 

 acacia woodlands. Also, it seems, from specimens examined, that 

 meliphilus is an unusually distinct race, showing no tendency to inter- 

 grade with pachyrhynchus or exilis. No true intermediates appear to 

 be known. If Verheyen (1953, pp. 406-407) is correct in recording 

 both exilis and "angolensis" (= meliphilus) from the Upemba Park, 

 and if the two occur together side by side all the way from Lake 

 Upemba to the Mwinilunga District of Northern Rhodesia, it would 

 seem necessary to give meliphilus full specific status. For the time 

 being it is not possible to state that the two have been recorded from 

 the same area in the Upemba Park, but the possibility of meliphilus 

 being a species and not a race of exilis should be kept in mind. 



Breeding Range and Season 



Like the other species of honey-guides, Indicator exilis is not migra- 

 tory (as far as we know, which is, admittedly, not much). It might 



** Melignothes pachyrhynchus Heuglin, Journ. Ornith., vol. 12, p. 266, 1864. 

 (Bongo, southeastern Sudan.) 



*' Melignothes exilis meliphilus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 869, 

 1905. (Taveta, Kenya Colony.) 



