— 397 — 



A single spécimen in the British National collection, shot by 

 Bâtes on the River Ja, Cameroon, 3ist December 1905, and 

 referred by Sharpe to albigidaris and by Ogilvie-Grant 

 (Ibis, igo8, p. 303) to leucolaema is a curious bird and I am by no 

 means certain that it belongs to either so-called species, which I 

 consider to be one and the same. The bill is much larger than the 

 largest maies and though there is little différence in the size of the 

 wing, the bastard-primary is much longer in the Cameroon bird 

 than in anv of the other spécimens. 



(A very shy and difficult bird to find, living like so many of its 

 kind in dense bush, climbs like an Oriole and feeds on insects, n°333 

 was shot in dense bush and was feeding on ants. — W. P. L.) 



Phyllastrephus indicator. 



Two spécimens of the Honev-guide Bulbul were shot by 

 Mr P. A. Talbot at Oban, S. Nigeria on the I2th of March 19 12 

 and are entered in the Register of the British Muséum under the 

 numbers 1912-8-16-13, 14. Both thèse spécimens are missing from 

 their place and I hâve therefore been unable to détermine to which 

 race they belong. It is particularly unfortunate not to hâve 

 spécimens. from S. Nigeria for comparison as a certain amount of 

 confusion still exists with regard to the correct names of the races 

 of this Bulbul. 



Reichenow in his Vôgel x^frikas, III, p. 390, recognised only 

 one form Phyllastrephus indicator (Verr.) ranging from Sierra 

 Leone to the Congo. Later in J. f. O., 1917, p. 115, be revised 

 this species splitting it into four races. 



1. Ph. indicator indicator. — Gaboon and Cameroon. 



2. Ph. indicator lacuuiii. — Central African Lakes. 



3. Ph. indicator togoensis. — The Whole of Upper Guinea from 

 Sierra Leone to Togoland. 



4. Ph. indicator congensis. — Congo région. 



