INDICATOEID^. 



Keii to the Genera. 



a. Tail composed of twelve feathers ; bill deeper 



than broad, and stout 1- Indicator, p. 2. 



h. Tail composed of ten feathers ; bill broader 



than deep, and slender :2. Peodotiscus, p. 11. 



1. INDICATOR. ^ 



iype. 



Indicator, Vieill. Analyse, p. 28 (1816) I. mdicator. 



Prodotes, Nitzsch, Pterijlographie, p. 131 (1840) I. indicator. 



Melig-uothes,(7««s'. Proc. Ac. N.Sc. Fhilad. 1856, p. 156 I. conirostris. 



Melig-nostes, Heine, J. ^. 0. 1860, p. 102 I. conirostris. 



Pseudofringilla, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 314 (1873) I. acanthonotus. 



Pseudospiza {nom. emend.), Sharpe in Rowlet/s Orn. 



Misc. 1. p. 207 (1876) I. acanthonotus. 



Banrjc. The whole of the Ethiopian Region, re-occurring in the 

 Himalayas, the Malayan Peninsula, and Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail darker, none of the feathers having the 



basal half white. 

 a. With a large patch of bright orange-yellow 



on the lower back and upper tail-coverts . . .vanthonotus, p. 3. 

 b'. Lower back and upper tail-coverts uniform 



with the mantle archipelayicm,^. 4. 



b. Tail paler, the basal half of the three outer 



pairs of feathers white. 

 c. With some white on the lower back and 

 upper tail-coverts. 

 a". Lower back and upper tail-coverts 

 streaked with white ; with no trace of 



j-ellow on the forehead or throat indicator, p. o. 



h" . Lower back and upper tail-coverts with 

 a large blotch of white ; with some yel- 

 low on the forehead and throat major, p. 6. 



d' . With no white on the lower back and upper 

 tail-coverts, which are similar in colouring 

 to the mantle, 

 c". Throat spotted with white. 

 «'". Breast buff, without spots. 



a'. Abdomen creamy white; under 



wing-coverts white varieyatus, p. 7. 



&*. Abdomen and under wing-coverts 



shaded with bright yellow stictithorax, p. 8. 



h'" . Uuderparts darker, dusky ash-colour; 



abdomen spotted Hke the throat .... maculatns, p. 9. 

 d" . Throat more uniform, not spotted with 

 white, 

 c'". Larger, wing about 3'5 inches. 



c*. Above duller; crown not washed 

 with yellow ; thigh-coverts with 

 obscure dusky stripes minor, p. 9. 



