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Key to the species of Indicator 



aK Tail with the basal half or more of the three outer rectrices white. 

 b^. Rump and upper tail-coverts white, with or without dark streaks. 



Indicator indicator 

 b2. Rump and upper tail-coverts with no white. 



c^ Throat and breast with light spots on a grayish or olive ground color, or 

 spotted or streaked with dusky. 

 d^. Crown and back olive in adults, olive brown in young; spots on upper 

 breast rounded, yellowish, on an olive ground; abdomen yellowish. 



Indicator tuaculatus and races 



d^. Crown grayish to grayish olive, with whitish lines on forehead; back 



olive, spots on upper breast less distinct, less yellowish, the feathers 



often appearing more streaked or spotted in the middle with grayish; 



the abdomen whitish without spots or streaks. 



Indicator variegatus and races 

 c^. Throat and breast uniform grayish with no spots of lighter, 



d*. Size smaller; wing less than 80 mm Indicator exilis and races 



(P. Size larger; wing 80 mm, or over Indicator minor and races 



a^. Tail with no white on the basal half of the outer rectrices. 

 ¥. With a large patth of bright orange-yellow on the rump. 



Indicator xanthonotus and races 

 b^. With no patch of orange-yellow on the rump . . . Indicator archipelagicus 



Spotted Honey-Guide 



Indicator maculatus G. R. Gray ** 



Figures 1, 2,a, 3,e; Plate 23 



DlSTRIBUnON 



A poorly known bird of the heavy forests of tropical West Africa, 

 this honey-guide ranges from Gambia and Portuguese Guinea through 

 Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gold Coast, Togoland, Nigeria, Cameroon, 

 Gaboon, and eastward across the upper Belgian Congo to extreme 

 western Uganda. It has not been reported, as yet, from Ivory Coast. 

 The species comprises two morphologically distinguishable races, a 

 western Upper Guinean race, typical maculatus, and an eastern, 

 Lower Guinean (Cameroon and Gaboon eastward) race, stictithorax. 

 The known localities of occurrence of the two are as foUows. 



Indicator maculatus maculatus: Gambia (Gambia Eiver), Portuguese 

 Guinea (Farim, Rio Cassine, Gunnal), Sierra Leone (Bafin River, 

 Bagbwe Valley, near Bintimane Peak, Karene Province), Liberia 

 (Sofori Place, Hill Town), Gold Coast (Monse Hills, Kwissa, "between 

 Cape Three Points and Accra," and Dabocram, Ashanti), Togoland 

 (Kratji), and Nigeria (Ondo). 



J9 Indicator maculatus G. R. Gray, Genera of birds, vol. 2, p. 451, pi. 113, 1847. 

 (No locality; the type in the British Museum is from Gambia.) 



