12 INDICATOEID^. 



brown, with white inner margins; bill and feet blackish. Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-45. 

 Hab. Natal. 



a. Ad. sk. Natal. Purchased. 



6. $ ad. slf. Natal, Aug. ( Wahlherg) Sharps Coll. 



2. Prodotiscus insignis. 



Hetferodes insignis, Cass. Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Philad. 185G, p. 157, 



1859, p. 142, pi. i. fig. 2 ; Heine, J.f. O. 1860, p. 192. 

 Indicator insignis, Hartl.Orn. W.-Afr. p. 185 (1857) ; Grm/, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 205, no. 88G4. 

 Prodotiscus insignis. Cab. ^_ Heine, Mus. Hem. iv. p. 5, note (1862) ; 



Heuffl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 774, note (1871) ; Sharpe in Eoivlei/'s 



Orn. Misc. i. p. 208 (1876). 

 Indicator emini, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 43, pi. iii. 



Adult male. Upper parts dusky brown, very slightly shaded with 

 olive on the crown and back of the neck, slightly more so with deep 

 yellow on the back and scapulars, increasing in the amount of 

 vellow on the rump, where the feathers show white ends ; wings 

 dark brown, the coverts shading into olive-yellow on their edges, 

 the quills edged with deep yellow ; four centre tail-feathers entirely 

 brown, the remaining six white, with the base only of the next pair 

 to the four centre feathers brown ; underparts, including the under 

 tail-coverts, ashy brown, fading into white on the centre and sides of 

 the abdomen behind the thighs. Total length 4'G inches, culmen 

 0-3, wing 2-6, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-5. 



Hah. Gaboon to Equatorial Africa. 



a. S ad. sk. Bellinia, Equatorial Africa, June. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



(Tj'pe of I. emini.') 



