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Turdoides plebeja (Cretzschmar) Brown Babbler 



In Gambia, Ross A. J. Walton collected two parasitized nests of 

 the brown babbler (local race T. p. platycircus) at Kambo, North 

 Bank Division; one on April 30, 1945, with one egg each of the 

 babbler and the cuckoo, and the other on July 4, 1945, with three eggs 

 of the host and one of the parasite. The Adamawa race of this 

 babbler, T. p. gularis, had been known earlier to be parasitized in 

 Nigeria. Both sets of eggs were acquired for his collection by 

 R. Kreuger of Helsinki, to whom I am indebted for the data. The 

 set taken on April 30 has since gone to the collection of Dr. Johan 

 Ottow, who informed me (in lift.) that the locality on his set was 

 given as Churchill Town, St. Mary, Gambia. 



Tiixdoides reinwardii (Swainson) Blackcap Babbler 



R. Kreuger of Helsinki {in litt.) informed me that he received from 

 Ross A. G. Walton, a set of one egg of this babbler with one of the 

 stripe-breasted cuckoo, taken at Kambo, North Bank Division, Gam- 

 bia, on May 1, 1944. This is the only instance I know of this babbler 

 as a host. The record refers to the nominate race. 



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