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Indicator varieg atus. 



Indicator varieg atus , Less. Tr, d'Orn. p. 155; — Schl. 

 Mus. P.-B., Cuculi, p. 2; — Sharpe, Layard's Birds S. 

 Afr. p. 167. 



Indicator major (jun. av.) , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 184. 



Indicator stictithorax , Rchw. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 110. 



Hab. Liberia , Gold Coast , Cameroons ; South Africa. 



A female only, obtained at Sofore Place. 



While the only specimen from West Africa in the Ley- 

 den Museum , collected by Pel on the Gold Coast and la- 

 belled as a female, is spotted with dirty white all over 

 its lower surface, the Liberian specimen is spotted only 

 on the chest. Chin and throat are dirty white with a 

 narrow dark shaft-streak to each feather. The feathers on 

 breast, sides of body and thighs are grayish green , broadly 

 edged with Isabel , which color prevails on the flanks and 

 still more on the under tail-coverts. Centre of abdomen 

 and vent entirely Isabel. Whole upper surface green, fore- 

 head not speckled with white. 



Iris reddish brown , bare space round the eye cobalt- 

 blue, bill horn-brown, feet green. Wing 9,6 cm., tail 

 6,5, tarsus 1,5, bill 1,3 (from front). Its cry is loud 

 and shrill. Although bees-nests are very abundant in the 

 forests round Sofore Place, we never saw this bird in the 

 quality of a Honey Guide. The stomac contained some 

 hard shells of beetles. 



Me sopicus pyrr hog aster. 



Picus (Chloropicus) pi/rrhogaster , Malh. Rev. Zool. 1845, 

 p. 399. 



Dendropicus (Mesopicus) py rrhog aster , Hartl. Orn. W. 

 Afr. p. 180. 



Mesopicus py rrhog aster ^ Hargitt, Ibis 1883, p. 419. 



Hab. West Africa , from Sierra Leone to the Gold Coast. 



Collected in the forests behind Monrovia. 



Iris brown, bill lead-color, feet bluish black. 



Notes from the Leydeu Mluseura, "Vol. "VII. 



