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hive as readily as to those in the forests. This is natural, as the bee 
is the same ; the bark hive, ‘ Musinga’ as it is named, being simply 
fastened up in a tree and left for the bees to come to. The object 
the bird has in view is clearly the young bees. It will guide to 
nests having no honey, and seems equally delighted if the comb 
containing the grubs be torn out, when it is seen pecking at it.” 
General colour above, yellowish-brown, the yellow brightest on 
the wing-feathers ; head ashy-brown; cheeks, chin, throat, breast, 
and belly, cinereous; vent white; thighs faintly maculated with 
brown; moustache blackish ; tail composed of twelve feathers, thus 
marked: two inner pair all brown, four outer pair white, with base 
and tips brown. In this species the outer pair are but very slightly 
shorter than thenext. Length, 5’ 9’” ; wing, 3’’ 7’’’; tail, 2’” 6”; 
tarsus, 10°6. 
Fig. Temm. Pl. Col. 542, fig. 2. 
_ 158, Proporiscus reauwus. Brown Honey-Guide. 
This peculiar little bird was discovered by the late Prof. Wahl- 
berg in South-Eastern Africa, and one of the original specimens 
from Port Natal is in the editor’s collection, and will shortly be 
placed in the British Museum. Nothing is known of its habits, but 
it may be distinguished from all the other Honey-Guides by its thin 
bill and nearly uniform brown plumage. 
The description here given is taken from a paper on the Indica- 
toridz contributed by the editor to Mr. Dawson Rowley’s “ Ornitho- 
logical Miscellany.” 
Adult female—General colour earthy-brown, including the sides 
of the face and neck; a tuft of white feathers on each side of the 
lower back ; underneath rather more ashy-brown, the centre of the 
body and under tail-coverts yellowish-white, the latter with a few 
hair-like shaft-streaks ; under wing-coverts white, the feathers near 
the edge of the wings brown; wings brown, the quills darker, the 
secondaries edged with whity-brown; tail dark brown, the three 
outer feathers white on the outer web extending for more than half 
of the two outermost, but less extended on the third; bill and feet 
blackish. Total length, 5 inches; culmen, 0°5; wing, 3:0; tail, 2°15; 
tarsus, 0°45. 
ig. Sharpe in Rowley’s Orn. Mise. part iy. 
