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Three of the specimens are in molting condition, the tails being 

 chiefly atfected. The caudal molt is centripetal. However, in four 

 molting examples of usamhiro, the caudal molt, while apparently 

 centripetal in three individuals, is very peculiar in the fourth. In 

 this bird the middle and the outermost pairs of rectrices are new, and 

 still basally enclosed in their sheaths, while the rest are old. 



Besides the actual specimens collected, this barbet was recorded 

 as follows: At a spring in the Indunumara Mountains, July 14-18, 

 6 seen ; plains at base of the Endoto Mountains, July 19-20, 10 seen ; 

 Endoto Mountains, July 21-24, 25 (including 2 collected) ; on the 

 march to Er-re-re, July 25, 20 seen ; between Er-re-re and Le-se-dun, 

 July 26, 20 noted; between Le-se-dun and Malele, July 27, 10; be- 

 tween Malele and the Northern Guaso Nyiro, July 28-31, 18 seen; 

 between the Tharaka district and the Tana River, August 13-17, 

 64 noted. 



Family INDICATORIDAE 



INDICATOR INDICATOR (Sparrman) 



Cnculus indicator Sparrman, Philos. Trans., vol. 67, p. 43, pi. 1, 1777 : Great 

 Fish River, near Somerset East, Cape Province. 



Specimeiis collected : 



Female adult, Hawash River, Ethiopia, February 10, 1912. 



Male adult. Lake Abaya, southeast Ethiopia, March 21, 1912. 



Male, immature. Black Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 25, 1912. 



Male adult, female immature, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, 

 April 9-14, 1912. 



Male, immature, Bodessa, Ethiopia, June 1, 1912. 



Male adult. Tana River, camp No. 6, Kenya Colony, August 22, 

 1912. 



Female, immature. Tana River at mouth of Thika River, Kenya 

 Colony, August 24, 1912. 



Female adult, 20 miles from mouth of Thika River, Kenya Colony, 

 August 27, 1912. 



Female adult. Bowlder Hill, Thika River, Kenya Colony, August 

 28, 1912. 



