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have written about them. Some collectors were not aware that there. 
were two species involved until they studied the dried specimens after 
their field experience. 
2) MOIST WOODLANDS 
AND SAVANNAS 
Ficure 1.—Simplified vegetation map of Africa. The large equatorial forest area is the home 
of the following honeyguides discussed in this paper: maculatus, conirostris, exilis, willcocksi, 
and, at its eastern end, chiefly at higher altitudes, of pumilio. The woodlands and sa- 
vannahs are the home of vartegatus, minor, meliphilus, and narokensis. 
Through the cooperation of the American Museum of Natural 
History, the Field Museum, and the National Museums of Rhodesia, 
together with the now considerable holdings of the Los Angeles County 
Museum of Natural History, plus earlier study of the specimens in 
the Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels, the British Museum 
(Natural History), the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle of La Chaux-de- 
Fonds, Switzerland, and the United States National Museum, I have 
