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 | | In immature Greater Honeyguides the orbital skin is blue, this colour extending on to the crown beneath the feathers; it is yellow in young Scaly-throated Honeyguides, and pale grey in young Lesser Honeyguides. |
 | | On occasions, two or more honeyguide eggs are laid in the same host’s nest, possibly a result of “egg-dumping”; in some such cases, albeit rarely, the hatchling honeyguides, with their thick skin, fail to cause serious injury to one another, and so may be raised together successfully. |
 | | For the Greater Honeyguide, the most open-country member of the family, it is possible that the loss of wax that results from modern methods of apiculture is partly or even mainly offset by the widespread opening-up of formerly forested areas, which thus become accessible to this honeyguide. |
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