THE HONEY-GUIDES 225 



therefore be expected to breed throughout its range, but so few ob- 

 servations are on record that it is not possible to outline seriously its 

 breeding range and season. The available data on localities and 

 dates of evidence of breeding are given below. 



Gold Coast: Mampong, Ashanti, February 10, two males collected 

 showing signs of breeding condition (Bannerman, 1951, p. 349; ex W. 

 Lowe, 1937, p. 653). This refers to the subspecies willcocksi. 



Nigeria: Near Lagos, January 30, male with enlarged testes 

 collected. Specimen in British Museum (subspecies hutsoni). 



Fernando Po: Basoala, May 9, male with enlarged testes collected. 



Cameroons: Bitye, January 29, female with developing ovarian 

 eggs, and Efulen, July 11, male with enlarged testes, both collected by 

 Bates; River Ja, March 22, fledged juvenal bird taken by Bates 

 (Sharpe, 1907, p. 440) (subspecies exilis). 



Belgian Congo: Irumu, Ituri forest, October 16, female "evidently 

 breeding" (Ogilvie-Grant, 1910, p. 415); East Congo forest, October 

 16, female in breeding condition (British Museum); lyonda, near 

 Coquilhatville, June 7, female with egg in oviduct (subspecies exilis) ; 

 Upemba Park, June, two males with enlarged testes. 



Spanish Guinea: "Around September, "egg laid by trapped bird 

 (subspecies exilis) . 



Uganda: Mount Elgon, July, nestling foimd in nest of Pogoniulus 

 b. jacksoni (subspecies meliphilus) . 



Kenya Colony: Sotik, October 5, female with fully formed egg 

 (Sharpe, 1892, p. 309) (subspecies pachyrhynchus) . 



Tanganyika Territory: Morogoro district, February 21, male 

 with very large gonads. 



Nyasaland: Cholo Mountain, September 3, female, almost ready to 

 breed; Ndirande Mountain, Blantyre, September 2, male with testes 

 somewhat enlarged (subspecies meliphilus). 



Songs and Calls 



Bates and others have written that this little honey-guide is gener 

 ally silent, but Bates, in the Cameroons, did once hear it utter a 

 repetitive monosyllabic note, kwiew, kwiew, kwiew, a description that 

 recalls somewhat the "song" of Indicator minor. 



Chapin (1939, p. 540) heard a short, dry trilling note from three 

 of these birds at Avakubi. In the Usambara Mountains, Tan- 

 ganyika Territory, Moreau (in Sclater and Moreau, 1932, p. 665) 

 heard the subspecies meliphilus make a sibilant sound, like that 

 produced by whistling through the teeth. Finally, as noted in our 

 short account of courtship behavior, in Northern Rhodesia meliphilus 

 was heard giving a very soft twittering sound. 



