b INDICATOEID^. 



dark hazel; legs lead-colour" {T. E. BncMey). Total length 7-9 

 inches, cnlnien 0-6, wing 4-5, tail 3-3, tarsus 0-7. 



Adnlt female. Differs iu plumage from the male in having no 

 black on the upper throat, the chin, entire throat, and cheeks being 

 ■whitish like the breast. Total length 7'1 inches, culmen 0'55, 

 wing 4-2, tail 3-2, tarsus 0-65. 



Hah. The greater part of Tropical Africa, except the forest- 

 region of the West Coast. 



a, b. S 2 fid. sk. Senegambia. Governor Kendall [P.]. 



c,d. d'ad. ; e,f. Senegambia. Seebohm Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 



(/. c? ad. sk. Casamance. Sharpe Coll. 



'h. c? ad. ; i, A-. J Eogos Land (IJsler). Sharpe Coll. 



ad. sk. 



I. 5ad.sk. Maragaz, July (TF. Jesse). Tweeddale Coll. 



m. S ad. sk. Limpopo E., Transvaal, Shelley Coll. 



Nov. {T. E. Buckley). 



n, o. S 2 ad. sk. Holfontein, Transvaal (F. W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Oates). Esqrs.i;?.]. 



p. 2 ad. sk. Newcastle, Natal, Oct. {B. Shelley Colk 



A. Butkr). 



q. S ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown, May. Major Trevelvan [P.]. 



r. 2 ad. sk. Eland's Post, May {T. C. Sharpe Coll. ' 



Atmore). 



s. c? ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith. 



t. S ad. sk. South Afi-ica. Shelley Coll. 



4, Indicator major. 



Le Grand Indicateur, male, Levaill. Ois. Afr. v. p. 135, pi. 241. fig. 1 

 (1806) ; Sunder. Krit. Framst. om Levaill.^. 50 (18.57). 



Indicator major, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 139, pi. 27. fig. 1 (1815) ; 

 Vieill. Nouv. Did. xvi. p. 153 (1817) ; Vieill. Eiic. Meth. p. 1350 

 (1823) ; Leis. Man. Om. p. 125 (1828) ; id. Traife,^. 155 (1831) ; 

 Temm. Tahl. Meth. p. 51 (1838) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 451 (1847); 

 Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 100 (1850); Marti. Om. H^-^^-. pp. 183, 

 274 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 264 ; Cab. Sf Heine, Mm. Hein. iv. 

 p. 5, note (1862) ;' Gurney, Ibis, 1862, p. 33 ; Heugl. J.f. 0. 1862, 

 p. 33 ; Schl. Mas. Pays-Bas, i. Cuculi, p. 1 (18G4) ; Layard, B. S. 

 Afr. p. 241 ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 373 ; Sha)-pe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 14 

 (1871) ; Hem/l. Orn.N.O.-Afr. ii. pp. 770, clx (1872) ; Gnrney in 

 Anderss. B. 'Damara-Land , p. 224 (1872) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 711 ; Bouvier, Cat. Ois.Marche S)C. p. 30 (1875) ; Sharpe in Eoiv- 

 ley's Orn.Misc. i.p.204 (1876) ; Bocaye, Om. Angola,^. 136 (1877) ; 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 795 ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 930 ; Ayres, 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 297 ; Sharjw, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. pp. 168, 810 

 (1875-84) ; Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Om. 1884, p. 365 ; Bohn, J. f. O. 



1885, p. 57 ; Fisch. t. c. p. 124 ; Hidois, Bidl. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belg. 



1886, p. 147 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 43, 1889, p. 356. 

 Indicator levaillantii (nee Temm.), Leadb. Trans. Linn. <S'oc. xvi. p. 85 



(1829). 

 Indicator buphagoides, Leadb. t. c. p. 91. 

 Indicator flavicollis, Sicains. B. W. Afr. ii p. 198 (1837). 



