CATALOGUE 



BIRDS. 



Order PICARI^E. 



(See vol. xvi. p. 1.) 



Suborder SCANSORES. 



(See vol. xviii. p. 1.) 



Family INDICATORID^E. 



(By G. E. SHELLEY.) 



Bill stout and Finch-like in the typical genus Indicator, the 

 maxilla swollen laterally, with the culminal ridge well marked, the 

 culm en and the geuys meeting at the tip with a precisely similar 

 curve : nostrils oval, exposed, with a narrow superior membrane. 

 In Prodotiscus the bill is much more slender and pointed. 



Palate aegithognathous. 



Vomer single, bifurcate. Manubrial process of the sternum 

 pointed. 



Femoro-caudal and accessory semitendinosus muscles present ; 

 ambieus and accessory femoro-caudal absent. 



Tail-feathers twelve (in Prodotiscus ten). 



Pterylosis : ventral feather-tract forked on throat, but not on 

 each side of breast. 



Oil-gland tufted. 



Caeca none. 



Ranging over the whole of the Ethiopian Region, re-occurring 

 in the Himalayas, the mountains of the Malayan Peninsula and of 

 Borneo. 



(Of. Garrod, P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 930-935 ; Sharpe in Powlet/s Orn. 

 Misc. voL i. pp. 192-209 ) 



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