88 BULLETIN 2 08, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



well, but I have never noted it in /. indicator, I. minor, or Prodotiscus 

 regulus, the species I have handled in the flesh, or in other species in 

 museum collections. 



Description 



Indicator maculatus sticlithorax 



Adult (sexes alike in coloration): Forehead, lores, crown, occiput, 

 and nape olive to dark greenish olive, some of the feathers of the an- 

 terior part of crown and forehead with narrow edges of ecru olive to 

 light yellowish olive ; entire upperparts of body and wings bright dark 

 citrine with a yellowish gi-een wash, the bases and concealed median 

 portions of the feathers dull, dark clove brown to fuscous; remiges 

 fuscous, externally edged with bright citrine, these margins broader 

 on the secondaries than on the primaries, and not reaching the terminal 

 part of the primaries, the remiges margined internally for most of their 

 length, except terminally, with creamy white; median two pairs of 

 rectrices dark clove brown to fuscous, edged with citrine; the other 

 rectrices white with broad dull olive brown tips, these dusky areas 

 extending farther down on the outer than on the inner webs, this be- 

 coming more extensive as a lateroterminal edging on the outermost 

 pair; lores, cheeks, and auriculars dull brownish olive, the feathers 

 of lores and lower cheeks in some specimens with narrow whitish edges ; 

 feathers of chin and throat streaked, with dull, dark olive shaft-stripes 

 and fairly wide whitish margins, breast feathers citrine with one latero- 

 terminal round spot and one sub terminal one of yellowish white on 

 each web; on feathers of upper abdomen these lateral spots tend to 

 elongate and to become slightly darker — creamy buff to Naples yellow 

 with a light olive wash; rest of abdomen with the lateral spots fused 

 to form broad edges to the feathers, the citrine being restricted to the 

 shaft stripe which becomes increasingly narrower posteriorly, the 

 lower abdomen and vent being largely pale cream or buffy with yel- 

 lowish gi*een tinge; feathers of flanks and thighs with broad median 

 stripes of dark olive to dark citrine, edged with cream or pale buff; 

 under tail-coverts similar but with the dusky shaft-stripes narrower; 

 under wing-coverts cream to almost white with some indistinct grayish 

 markings ; iris dark brown to brownish ochre, bill blackish, the base of 

 the mandible greenish brown to pinkish brown; feet dark green. 

 Measurements of males, in millimeters: wing 97-111, tail 59-73, 

 culmen from base 14.6-15, tarsus 15-17.5; of females: wing 99-103, 

 tail 59-63, culmen from base 14-14.3, tarsus 16-18. 



Juvenal: Similar to the adult on the upperparts except that the 

 basal and median portions of the feathers of the crown and occiput 

 are slightly darker (dark fuscous), the general greenish tone of the 

 back and wings slightly less yellowish (dark citrine); below darker 



