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



Indicator exilis ansorgei. 



Indicator exilis ansorgei C. Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. xxxv. 1915, 

 p. 100 : Gunnal, Portuguese Guinea. 



Differs from /. e. exilis in having the upper parts less 

 strongly marked, the head paler grey without the olive wash, 

 and the whole under surface greyer and paler. The male 

 shows no black specks on the chin and there are but one or 

 two in the female. Very similar to /. e.poensis^ from which it 

 differs in its much larger size. Wing : ^ 80 mm.; ? 71 mm. 



Type in British Museum : J ad. Gunnal, Portuguese 

 Guinea. 4. vi. 09. W. J. Ansorge coll. Wing 80, cul- 

 men 10*5, tail 48, tarsus 1.2"5 mm. Named in honour 

 of the late Dr. W. J. Ansorge. 



Range. Portuguese Guinea. 



I am quite unable to fix satisfactorily Heuglin^s Melig- 

 nothes j)acJiyrhynchus (Journ. fiir Orn. 1864, p. 266 : Bongo, 

 Bahr-el-Ghazalj. In the Orn. N.O.-Afrika, 1871, p. 773, 

 Heuglin considers it to be a synonym of /. minor and 

 mentions that the original type is no longer in the Stuttgart 

 Museum. 



Shelley in the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 

 vol. xix. 1891, p. 9, also places this name as a synonym of 

 /. minor ; but Reichenow in the Vog. Afrikas, vol. ii. 1902, 

 p. 112, puts it as a doubtful synonym of his /. jjygmceus. 

 The description certainly fits /. minor, and Heuglin's name 

 might well remain a synonym of that species, if it was not 

 for the apparently small size of Heuglin's specimen, the 

 wing being given as 2" 11'" (German inches) =7Q mm., 

 and that of a male. 



190. Prodotiscns regulus. Brown Honey-Guide. 



Prodotiscus regulus Sund. ffifv. Ak. Forh. 1850, p. 109 : 

 Caffraria inferior et superior ; ex Wahlberg. 



a. S ad. Southern Guaso Nyiro, 2900 ft. Nov. 23. 



Total length in flesh 5| inches. Wing 80 mm., which 

 exactly equals the wing-measurement given by Sundevall 

 for his type, 



[Irides brown ; bill black ; legs and toes dark grey. 

 This specimen was the only one seen.] 



