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BULLETIN 2 08, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Barbet — Continued 



naked-faced, 204 



pied, 146, 190 



prong-billed, 18, 23, 195 



sleeping habits of, 18 



southern black-collared, 104 



white-eared, 199, 204 



Whyte's yellow-headed, 104 



yellow-headed, 194 

 Bar-throated bush warbler, 137, 166 

 Baryphthengus marti, 80 

 Bates, George Latimer, 10, 86, 87, 182, 

 211, 213, 216, 225, 227, 228, 

 243, 246, 247. 

 Batis, Cape, 260 

 Batis capensis, 260 

 Beaton, Ken de P., 42, 43-44, 62 

 Beecher, William John, 14, 81 

 Bee-eater, 16, 19, 116, 139, 140, 192 



Boehm's, 140 



lesser, 192-193 



little, 151 



southern little, 141 



swallow-tailed, 142 



white-fronted, 142 

 Beeswax, adsorbtive qualities of, 76 



bacterial action on, 78-79 



chemical composition, 77 (table) 



melting point, 73 (table) 



saponification values, 74-75 



splitting of into fatty acids, 75 

 Belcher, Charles F., 104, 106, 144, 149, 

 151, 154, 194, 201, 216 

 Bell-bird, naked-throated, 80 

 Bell-Marley, H. W., 104, 105, 150, 151, 



197 

 bennettii, Campethera henneitii, 204, 252 

 Bennett's woodpecker, 204, 205 

 Benson, Constantine Walter, 90, 93, 

 104, 106, 112, 140, 141, 154, 186, 

 194, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 

 213, 216, 247, 250, 252, 255 

 Benson, C. W., and Benson, F. M., 250, 



251, 262, 263 

 Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 80 

 Beven, Geoffrey, 189, 262, 263 

 Bhuchanga adsimilis, 214 

 hicolor, Iridoprocne, 79 



Spreo, 20, 135, 137, 138, 140, 152, 

 261 



Sympledes, 122, 128 



Turdus, 152 

 bilineaia, Megalaema, 194-195 

 bilineatus, Pogoniulus, 19, 194 

 Bird-of-paradise, 132 

 Bisset, John J., 48 

 Black tit, 156, 203, 261, 262 

 Black woodpecker, 23 

 Black-collared barbet, 17, 79, 101, 102, 

 104, 136, 146, 153, 156, 182, 189, 

 191, 192, 198-200, 205 

 Black-throated honey-guide, 140 



wattle-eye, 251 

 Bladen, H. A. W., 155 

 Blancou, Lucien, quotation from, 57 



Blanford, William Thomas, quotations 

 from, 14, 215 



Blaita, 78 



Blue flycatcher, 226 



Boat-tailed grackle, 132 



Bocage, 166 



Bodenheimer, Frederick Simon, 27, 33 



boehmi, Aerops, 140 



Merops (Melittophagus) , 140 



Boehm's bee-eater, 140 



bonapartei, Gymnobucco, 86, 193, 211 

 Gymnobucco bonapartei, 193 



Bonaparte's brown barbet, 193 



Bower-bird, 132 



Bowker, Holden, 42 



Brelsford, Victor, 32 



Breeding habits. Indicator xanthonotus, 

 232 

 Melichneutes robustus, 238 



Breeding range and season. Indicator 

 exilis, 224-225 

 Indicator indicator, 117-118 

 Indicator minor, 180-181 

 Indicator variegatus, 91 

 Prodotiscus insignia, 249-250 

 Prodotiscus regulus, 258 



Breeding season. Indicator maculatus, 85 

 Melichneutes robustus, 238 



Broekhuysen, 162 



Brood hosts of honey-guides, 19-20 

 of Indicator exilis, 226-227 

 of Indicator indicator, 139-156 

 of Indicator minor, 192-205 

 of Indicator variegatus, 103-108 

 of Prodotiscus insignis, 251-252 

 of Prodotiscus regulus, 259-260 



Brood parasitism, Anatidae, 15 

 Cuculidae, 15 i-^ 



geological age of, in honey-guides, 



18 

 Icteridae, 15 

 phylogeny of, in honey-guides, 14-19 



Brown, William Harvey, 184 



Brown barbet, 86, 238, 243 



Brown-hooded kingfisher, 140, 168 



Bubulcus, 67 



Buccanodon anchieiae, 194 



Buccanodon leucotis kilimensis, 107 



Bucco leucomelas, 146, 195 



Bucco pusillus, 147, 194 



Bucco torquatus, 104, 146, 198 



Bucconidae, 4, 5, 18 



Bucerotidae, 23 



Bulbul, 29, 154, 155, 169, 176, 205, 233 



bullockoides, Melittophagus, 138, 140, 142 

 Merops, 142 



Buphagus, 67, 69 



Bush warbler, 253 



Bustard, giant, 80 



Butler, Edward A., 165 



Buttiker, W., 34, 78, 169 



Button, E. L., 166, 226 



Buzzard, lizard, 219 



caerulea, Urocissa, 80 

 caffer, Apus, 258, 260 



