1. INDICATOR. 



3. Indicator indicator. 



Ciiculns iiidicator, Gm. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 418 (1788); Walden, Ibis, 

 1869, p. 337. 



Indicator spaiTmanni, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 138 (1815) ; Gray, Gen. 

 B. ii. p. 451 (1847) ; Bp. Coiisp. Av. i. p. 100 (1850) ; Cad. i,- Heme, 

 iMus. Hein. iv. p. 6 (1862) ; 8chl. Mus. Pays-Bas, i. Cuculi, p. 2 

 (1864) ; Blanf. Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss, p. 30t ; Flnsch, Trans. Z. S. 

 vii. p. 286 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 204, no. 8853 ; Heugl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr.\\. pp. 767, clx (1871) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 14 

 (1871) ; Aniin. 8f Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gm. iv. p. 46 (1873) : 

 Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 368; Sharpe in Moivley's Orn. Misc. i. 

 p. 201 (1876) ; Bocage, Orn. Anrjola, p. 135 (1877) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 795 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. '296 ; Fisch. ^- Reichen. J. f. 0. 



1879, p. .341 ; Sharpe, e<l. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 166, 810 (1875- 

 84); id. in Gates Matabele-Land, p. 305 (1881) ; Hartl. Abhandl. 

 nat. Ver. Brem. riii. p. 209 (1882) ; Bohm, J.f. O. 1883, p. 165; 

 Schaloiv, t. c. p. 346 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ( 2) i. p. 90 

 (1884) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 365 ; Bohm, J. f. O. 

 1885, p. 57; Fischer, t. c. p. 124; Reichen. J.f. 0. 1887, pp. 59, 

 309. 



Indicator albirosti'i.'?, Temm. PI. Col. 367 (1825) ; Less. Man. Orn. 



p. 125 (1828) ; id. Traite, p. 155 (1831) ; Temm. Tabl.Meth. p. 51 



(1838) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 451 (1847) ; Des Murs in Lefebvre, 



Toy. Abyss, p. 1-39 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 100 (1850) ; Hartl. 



J. f. O. 1854, p. 201 ; Heiu/l. Si/st. Uebers. p. 47 (1856) ; Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 184 (1857) ; Heui/l. J. f. O. 1863, p. 272, 1864, 



p. 265 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 242 (1867) ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 



1873, p. 197. 

 Indicator levaillanti, Temm. PI. Col. 367, text to I. minor (1825) ; 



Leadlxater, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 90 (1833) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 451 (1847). 

 Indicator leucotis, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 193 (1837). 

 Indicator fiaviscapiilatu?, ^«p/). iN'ewe Wirb., Viig.Tp. GO (18.35-40). 

 Prodotes albirostris, Nitzsch, Pterylographie, p. 131 (1840). 

 Indicator archipeligicus {nee Temm.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 96 



(1845). 

 Indicator albicollis, Leadbeater, fide Bp. Consp. Av. p. 100 (1850). 

 Indicator pallidirostris, Heuql. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 265 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii.p. 205, no. 8858 (1870)! 

 Indicator sp., Sandeman, Ibis, 1880, p. 286. 



Adult male. Above ashj' browo, with a yellow band on the 

 shoulder formed by some of the innermost of the least wing-coverts; 

 remainder of the wing-coverts with broad whitish edges, the quills 

 with narrow pale edges ; some of the feathers of the rump and upper 

 tail-covcrts with broad white edges, but none of the feathers ever 

 entirely white ; centre pair of tail-feathers and the ends of the 

 remainder dark brown, with the greater portion white, the white 

 increasing in extent towards the outer ones ; chin and upper throat 

 black : cheeks brownish black ; ear-coverts brownish white ; lower 

 throat and chest brownish white, passing entirely into white on the 

 centre of the body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts ; flanks and 

 thigh-coverts with narrow dark brown shaft-stripes ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner edges of the quills white : " bill whitish ; iris 



