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In Sudan the pied crested cuckoo generally is reported by Cave and 

 MacDonald (1955, p, 174) to be a fairly common nonbreeding visitor 

 from March to October in the southern part of the country, from 

 June to late August in Darfur. It may be noted, however, that many 

 years ago Emin collected an egg of this cuckoo at Lado (Hartlaub, 

 1881, p. 114) while Butler (in Sclater and Mackworth-Praed, 1919 

 p. 642) stated that it breeds near Khartoum, where he found newly 

 fledged young on October 5 (Butler, 1908, p. 245). 



In British Somaliland (now part of the Somali Republic) Archer 

 and Godman (1961, pp. 663-668) reported it as present in May and 

 June, the main breeding season of many potential passerine hosts. 

 There are as yet no definite breeding records from that area but the 

 pied cuckoo may well prove to breed there. 



In Ethiopia, serratvis has been collected as early as April 7 to 8, at 

 Gato River, near Gardula (Friedmann, 1930, pp. 268-272) together 

 with examples of the race pica, and at Sagon River, June 4. In 

 Eritrea, K. D. Smith (1957, p. 309) classed it as a migrant, present 

 from June to September, possibly breeding there in summer. 



In Angola this cuckoo (subspecies pica) is found only from October 

 to May, from Huila and eastern Mogamedes to Cuanza Norte to 

 Luanda and along the coast from Benguela to Cuanza; it migrates 

 north of the equatorial forest in "winter." For these summary data 

 I am indebted to M. A. Traylor of the Chicago Natural History 

 Museum, who further informs me that there are breeding records 

 from Chibia in February and from Huila in December, and that 

 some of the Huila specimens show an approach to the pied phase of 

 serratus. 



In Tanganyika, Moreau (1937b, pp. 22-23) noted that while no 

 race of C. jacobinus had yet been found to breed in that country, 

 pied morphs of serratus were known to appear there as migrants, as 

 well as the paler, white-breasted pica, some of the latter race presum- 

 ably coming from India. He further noted that examples of this 

 cuckoo from extreme western portions of Tanganyika may belong to a 

 ". . . population different from that occurring in the rest of the 

 territory; the date of the influx accords with a possibility that they 

 might be birds coming south from spending their off-season in Darfur 

 and the Sudan." Thus, at Kigoma, in late October, Packenham 

 found pica became abundant, and he found that a female collected as a 

 specimen record had an enlarged ovary, ostensibly a bird on its way 

 to its breeding grounds. 



In another paper, Moreau (1937a, pp. 5-7) reported that white- 

 breasted birds ( C. j. pica) had been collected in northern, central and 



