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86. X Indicator indicator. Wliite-cbeeked Honeyguide. 

 Indicator sparrmanni Scl. iii. p. 146. 



Sind. "isehlo^' or " insclilu/' probably applied to /. major 

 as well. 



This Honeyguide is rather plentiful within the hills, but 

 I found it very scarce on the surrounding veld. One of 

 these birds came into our cave repeatedly to investigate the 

 stock-pot of honey 1 



87. Indicator major. Yellow-throated Honeyguide. 



On June 21, 1912, I saw a single one on the Malemi 

 river at the foot of the Malamba Range. This species will, 

 however, probably prove to be not uncommon. 



88. t Lybius torquatus. Black-collared Barbet. 



These Barbets are numerous and resident throughout. 

 I have observed them at their nesting-holes (twice in a Kaffir 

 plum-tree) in February. These birds, or perhaps the male 

 only, have a great variety of calls which include a verv 

 curious alarm-note, closely resembling the subdued " caw '■* 

 of a rook ! I have only heard this call at close quarters — 

 as, for instance, whilst standing under the tree in which they 

 have had a nest. On such occasions I have noticed them 

 hopping about from branch to branch, peering at one, with 

 head first this way and then that, and keeping up this 

 peculiar "cawing" note throughout these antics. 



89. X Tricholaema leucomelan. Pied Barbet. 



Not uncommon, but probably less plentiful than the 

 last species. A favourite nesting-place is in one of the 

 candelabra-like branches of an " umhlonhlo," and I have 

 noticed several nests thus situated. 



90. X Barbatula extoni. Yellow-fronted Tinker Bird. 

 Eather uncommon, but I met with it close to Fortusher 



in 1908, and also on Lucydale and La Concord farms 

 later. This little Tinker Bird closely resembles species of 

 Cinnyris in the way in which it hovers at the extremity of 

 some dependent spray of acacia or other flowering tree. 



