430 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Colleclton of 



Ceuthmochares ^reus intermedius. 



Ce)ithmochares iniermedius Sharpe^ Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. 

 xvii. ISS^, p. 432 : Semmio, Bahr-el-Ghazal. 



Head much paler grey than in C. <£. <Breus ; back, wings, 

 and tail dark, but distinctly washed with bronzy green ; tail 

 below more washed with steel-blue ; rest o£ underparts as 

 in C. (S. cereus. 



Banffe. Uganda (Entebbe, Mabira, Msozi and Fort Portal) 

 to Semliki Valley, Bahr-el-Ghazal, and Welle and Shari 

 Rivers. 



188. Indicator indicator. Black-throated Honey-Guide. 



Cuculus indicator Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. 1788, p. 418 : 

 Interior of Africa. " A quelque distance du Cap de Bonne 

 Esperance,'' cf. BufPon, vol. vi. 1779, p. 392. 



a. ? juv. 12 miles E. of Amala River, 5900 ft. Oct. 26. 



b. S ad. West of Mt. Leganisho, 5600 ft. Oct. 28. 



c. ? juv. Mt. Maroto, 4300 ft. Jan. 28. 



Total length in flesh : S ^h inches ; ^ 7h ^7\ inches. 

 Wing : S 114 mm. ; ? 110 & lOi mm. 



The male is fully adult and shows slight signs of wear ; 

 the two females are in the dress of Indicate?' major, are 

 somewhat worn, the yellow colour having faded from the 

 breast and abdomen_, and are starting the moult in the wings 

 and tail. 



[ 3* • Irides light brown ; bill pink, with white tip ; legs 

 and toes greyish brown ; in the females the bill is black, 

 the irides brown. Tolerably common and very noisy ; 

 several were seen in young dress both in Uganda and 

 British East Africa.] 



A careful examination and comparison of the large series 

 in the British Museum collection, both oi Indicator indicator 

 and Indicator major Steph. (Gen. Zool. vol. ix. 1815, p. 139, 

 pi. 27 : Auteniquoi, Knysna Dist.,Cape Colony), shows that 

 the latter is merely the first plumage birds of the former, 

 and that the names are therefore synonymous, as was first 

 pointed out by Boyd Alexander (Bull. B, O. C. vol. xxi. 

 1908, p. 91). 



