10 INDK'ATORIT>J=:. 



Adult male. Uj^per half ot the head and back of neck ashy brown, 

 with a slight yellow wash and a broad white band from the nostril 

 to the cheek ; back and wings broM'n, washed with deep yellow on 

 the edges of the feathers ; tail with the four centre feathers blackish 

 brown, narrowly edged along their outer sides with olive-yellow : 

 remaining tail-feathers white, wHh broad dark-brown ends ; undcr- 

 parts ashv, fading into white on the chin, centre of abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts, and a broad dusky baud below the cheeks and 

 ear-coverts ; thigh-coverts with broad, somewhat obscure, dusky 

 shaft-stripes ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of the quills 

 whitish: "iris brown; bill — upper mandible black, lower one 

 brown, flesh-colour at base ; legs dull olive " (T. L. Ayres). Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 3'5, tail 2-5, tarsus 0"6. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 5-1 

 inches, culmen 2-4, wing 3-4, tail 2-5, tarsus O'G. 



Hal). The greater part of Tropical Africa, except the forest-region 

 of the "West Coast. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. Shelley Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Eland's Post ( T. C. Atmore). Sharpe Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Kingwiinamstown(7'yerc/?/cr?0- 1!. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 e,f,c;. Ad.sk. Natal. Seebohm Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. Durban {Gordge). Shelley Coll. 



I. Ad. sk. Pinetown, Oct. (T. i. ^yrfs). Shelley Coll. 



k. cJ ad. ; /, m. Swazi-Land {T. E. BucMey). Shelley Coll. 



? ad. sk. 



??, o,p. (fad. sk. Otjimbinque, Damara-Land, Sharpe Coll. 



Oct. (C. J. Andersson). 



q. Ad. sk. Near Bagamoyo. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



r. (S ad. sk. Waliko, Bogos - Land ( W. Tweeddale Coll. 



Jesse) . 



8. Indicator conirostris. 



MeligTiothes conirostris, Cass. Troc. Ac. Is. Sc. PInlad. 185G, p. 156, 



1859, pi. ii. ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 264. 

 Indicator conirostris, JIartl. On}. W.-Afr. p. 184 (1857) ; Cab. ^ 



Heine, Mus. Hem. iv. p. 4, note (1862) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 205, no. 8859 (1870) ; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marcke ^c. p. 30 



(1875) ; Sharpe in Itowlej/s Orn. Misc. i. p. 196 (1876) ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 793, 795. 

 Indicator occidentalis, Fen: in Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 185, note 



(1857). 



Adidt. Similar in plumage to /. minor, but differing in the upper 

 parts being brighter, the ground-colour of all the feathers being nearly 

 black, with broader and brighter yellow edges not only to the 

 feathers of the back and wings, but also of the crown and hind 

 neck ; lores and chin mottled with black ; thigh-coverts with broad 

 black shaft-stripes. Total length G inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3-6, 

 tail 2-5, tarsus 0-65. 



Hah. West Africa, from the Gold Coast to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Gold Coast (Aidmin). Shelley Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 



