434 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Collection of 



Size as in /. m. minor, from which it differs in having the 

 top of the head and nape clearer grey without the olive 

 ■wash, the whole of the underparts clear grey without any 

 olive tinge, and the markings on the wings and back rather 

 more clearly defined and brighter in colour. 



Type in British Museum : (J ad. Gambaga, Gold Coast 

 Hinterland. 28. xii. 1900. Boyd Alexander coll. Wing 95, 

 culmen 12, tail 64, tarsus 11 mm. Named in honour of the 

 late Lieut. Boyd Alexander. 



Wing : ^ 95 mm. ; ? 90 mm. 



Range. Gold Coast Colony. 



Indicator conirostris conirostris. 



Melignothes conirostris Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1856, 

 p. 156; Moonda River, Gaboon ; id. 1859, p.). ii. 



Of this, Indicator occidentalis Hartl. (Birds W.-Afr. 1857, 

 p. 185) is a synonym. 



Head and nape dark grey, faintly washed with olive. 

 Wing : ^ 93-88 mm. ; ? 88-79 mm. 



Hange. Gaboon north of Ogowe River, and Cameroon. 



Indicator conirostris ussheri. 



Indicator ussheri Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. vol. xii. 1902, 

 p. 80 : Fantee. 



Head and nape dark olive-green, similar to back. Wing 

 93 & 92 mm., in two examples ; neither is sexed, the first 

 being the type. 



Range, Gold Coast Colony. 



Indicator exilis exilis. 



Melignothes exilis Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad, 1856, p. 157: 

 Moonda River, Gaboon ; id. 1859, pi. i. fig, 1. 



Of this, ludicator pygmeeus Reichw, (Journ, fiir Orn. 1892, 

 p. 132 : Bukoba, Victoria N^anza ; compared with /. minor 

 and wing given as 80 mm.) appears to be a synonym. 



Top of head dark grey, strongly washed with olive, rest 

 of upper parts having the markings broad and strongly 

 defined ; below, chin white with black specks ; rest of under- 

 parts, except abdomen and under tail-coverts, dark olive. 



