NO. 4 AVIAN GENUS CLAMATOR — FRIEDMANN IO3 



Lamprotornis chalybeus (Hemprich and Ehrenberg) 



Blue-eared Glossy Starling 



Two races of this starling have been recorded as victims of the 

 great-spotted cuckoo, cyaniventris in the SomaH Republic, and sy- 

 cobius in Southern Rhodesia. In former British SomaHland (now a 

 part of the Somali RepubHc), Archer {in Archer and Godman, vol. 

 3, 1961, p. 657) found a nest at Sheikh, on May 26, containing one 

 tgg of the starling and two of the parasite. It is the only record that 

 has come to my notice for the race cyaniventris. 



The southern race, sycohius, was added to the known fosterers of 

 the great-spotted cuckoo by Meyer (1959, p. 85), who found a nest 

 near Que Que, Southern Rhodesia, on November 15, 1958, which 

 contained a young cuckoo, still devoid of feathers, but with the quills 

 just appearing on the tail and wings, a young starling, fully feathered, 

 about 10 to 14 days old, a dead young starling, and a broken, un- 

 hatched starling &gg. Three days later the two nestlings were still 

 there, but on the following day the young cuckoo was the sole oc- 

 cupant and remained there for another week, when it fledged and was 

 seen attended by its foster-parents. 



B. DATA ON ADDITIONAL HOSTS OF CLAMATOR JACOBINUS 



Since my first host catalog, a number of additions have been sent 

 to me or have appeared in print. These records, with their pertinent 

 documentation, are here reported. While these species are additions 

 to the earlier catalog they are all infrequently used fosterers, as 

 might be assumed from the fact that they have only recently been 

 so recorded. They all come from Africa, where the chief hosts, 

 bulbuls of the genus Pycnonotus and shrikes of the genus Lanitis, 

 have been reported in this capacity so many times since the last 

 (Friedmann, 1949a) catalog as to leave no doubt as to their primary 

 role in the economy of the pied crested cuckoo. 



Centropus grillii Hartlaub Black-bellied Coucal 



A coucal is an unusual host as it builds a fairly domed-over nest 

 on the ground, a site not usually favored by the pied cuckoo. The 

 one known record comes to me from Dr. Johan Ottow (in litt.), who 

 has in his collection a parasitized set of the present coucal species, 

 taken at Baviaans Krantz, near Rustenberg, Transvaal, November 

 30, 1952. The set contained one egg of the host and one of the 

 parasite. The record refers to the race wahlhergi of the coucal and 

 serratus of the jacobin cuckoo. 



