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terminal edges; the median tail feathers brownish black, the outermost 

 yellowish white; bill and feet blackish, the base of the bill pale. 



A 3^ounger bird, supposedly taken from a nest, is described by 

 Chapin (1939, pp. 553-556) as follows: Crown and cheeks sooty, 

 wings dusky with olive-gi'een edgings, back and rump more greenish 

 than crown; underparts dark grayish olive, washed with blackish; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts (except the longest ones) lighter and 

 greener; rectrices, though only half grown, are colored much as in the 

 adult, and the middle ones curve outward slightly; bill largely black. 



Nothing has been written on the molts of this bird. Bates's type, 

 an adult female, still has a few scattered blackish feathers from the 

 Juvenal plumage on the breast, suggesting that this area is the last to 

 molt. 



Native Names 



Following is a list of names by which this species is known to the 

 natives. 



Name 

 Amazeke 

 Kumu-kumu 

 Mobum 

 Ngebu-ngebu 

 Nvebe 

 Nyete 

 Pem^-peme 

 Pemu-pemu 

 Pupu-puru 

 Selem n'gomo 

 Vebek 

 Vebeu 



Genus Melignomon Reichenow 



Melignomon Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsb., vol. 6, p. 22, 1898. (Type, by original 

 designation, Melignomon zenkeri Reichenow.) 



Similar to Indicator except in its bill, which is small and slender, 

 approaching that of Prodotiscus, but with narrow, slitlike nostrils 

 (not open and rounded as in Prodotiscus) ; differs from Prodotiscus in 

 having 12 tail feathers, the outermost pair of which is conspicuously 

 shorter than the others (which are fairly equal). Possibly not more 

 than a subgenus of Indicator. 



Monotypic; forest of the Lower Guinean region, Cameroons to 

 Belgian Congo. 



