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Cameroon and Gabon, typical minor is the bird of the open country 
of southern and eastern Africa, west and south of the Congo forest 
to Angola. It now seems that pwmilio is the dark forest counterpart 
(from the eastern Congo, discontinuously to Kakamega, in western 
Kenya) of the pale narokensis, which is now known to occur from 
Turkanaland south to northeastern Tanzania and west to the Upemba 
Park in the Congo. 
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A PUMILIO 
Ficure 2.—Specimen records of the three small species of Indicator whose relationships 
are reinterpreted in this paper. 
The subspecies conirostris is not wholly constant in its color characters; 
in fact, in parts of western Africa, especially in Upper Guinea, it and 
its geographic replacement riggenbachi frequently show some inter- 
gradation toward the adjacent, paler forms of minor—alezanderi, 
