aon Mr. W. H. Ojjilvie (Jrant on Birds 



174. Iynx tokquilla. 



lynx torquillu Linu. ; Ilargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. 

 p. 560 (1890) ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 74 (Somaliland). 

 a. S- Ganti, Abyssinia, 28 March, 1899. (No. 458.) 

 Iris light hazel ; bill dark ; legs light brown. 



175. Iynx ^equatorialis. 



lynx aquatorialis Rlipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 93, pi. 37 (1815) ; 

 Ilargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 567 (1890). 



This handsome species of Wryneck has long been a desi- 

 deratum to the British Museum Collection, 



a. S. Burka, Abyssinia, 6 January, 1899. (No. 127.) 



b. ? . Baroma, „ 10 January, 1899. (No. 149.) 



a. Iris light hazel ; bill dark ; legs light brown. 



b. Iris light hazel ; bill and legs dark brown. 



[A widely-distributed bird, though it was seldom that more 

 than one pair were seen in a day. — L.] 



176. Indicator lovati. 



Indicator lovati Grant, Bull. B. O. C. vol. x. p. xxxix 

 (1900). 



a. ? . Gelongol, Abyssinia, 13 March, 1899. (No. 406.) 

 [Type of the species.] 



Adult fern n/e. Resembles /, minor Steph. in the colour of 

 the upper parts, wings, and tail, but differs from that species 

 in having the heavy black moustachial streaks confluent on 

 the chin ; the throat dull grey, with a slight greenish tinge, 

 uniform in colour with the breast, and the longer flank- 

 feathers dark smoky brown, edged with white on the sides. 

 From /. conirostris (Cass.), which it approaches in the latter 

 characters, it may be at once distinguished by the greyish- 

 brown colour of the head and neck and the much duller 

 yellow colouring of the back and wing-coverts. Iris brown; 

 bill and legs black. Total length about 6"0 inches, culraen 

 0*5, wing 35, tail 2*25, tarsus ()'55. 



[This Honey-guide was shot at daybreak perched on the 

 outside of a rotten tree ; just on a level with its head was a 

 small orifice into which it darted its bill at intervals of 

 perhaps two seconds. I afterwards saw one of the same 



