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Dicrunis adsimilis (Bechstein) Glossy-backed Drongo 



In my earlier account (1949a, p. 35) I knew of only one old record 

 of Bowker's, quoted by Layard (1877), which was considered ques- 

 tionable. This record remained unique until 1962, when Skead (1962, 

 pp. 72-7Z) found a parasitized nest in which the drongos successfully 

 reared a jacobin cuckoo. The nominate race of the drongo, and the 

 race serratus of the parasite are here involved. 



Turdoides jardinei (Smith) Arrow-marked Babbler 



This babbler, a very frequent fosterer of the stripe-breasted 

 cuckoo, Clamator levaillantii, has been listed as a host of the jacobin 

 as well in Northern Rhodesia, by Benson and White (1957, p. 43). 

 On geographic grounds this would involve the host race T. j. 

 natalensis. 



Terpsiphone viridis (St. Miill.) Paradise Flycatcher 



Skead (1955, p. 46) found a nest of the paradise flycatcher with 

 an egg of C. jacobinus at Fleet Dutch Kloof, King William's Town, 

 eastern Cape Province, December 18, 1954. This is the only instance 

 known to me of the pied cuckoo laying in the nest of this species. 

 This flycatcher is one of the smallest victims yet recorded. The record 

 refers to the race perspicillata of the host, and the race serratus of 

 the parasite. 



Sphenoeacus afer (Gmelin) Grass Bird 



In my 1956 discussion (p. 379) I mentioned that I saw a parasitized 

 set of eggs of this bird, taken at Inyanga, Southern Rhodesia, by E. F. 

 Allen, in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Salisbury. This is still the 

 only real record, but I have been informed of one other indefinite 

 one since then, also in the general region of Salisbury. The record 

 refers to the race transvaalensis of the host and serratus of the 

 parasite. This is one of the few birds nesting on, or close to, the 

 ground that are occasionally parasitized. 



Motacilla aguimp Dumont Pied Wagtail 



The African pied wagtail was added to the known hosts of the 

 pied crested cuckoo by van Someren (1956, p. 236) who found it to 

 be imposed upon by no less than three species of cuckoos in the 

 Ngong area, near Nairobi, Kenya ; the present one, the solitary cuckoo, 



