1919-] ^^'^ Birds of the Anr/lo-Egyptian Sudan. 639 



neck than the other examples. Lake Chad examples, 

 however, collected bv Boyd Alexander, appear to be quite 

 typical. Zedlitz, O. M. 1910, p. 57, has separated the 

 Somaliland birds by their paler underside as T. m. somalicus, 

 and this is borne out bv the series in the Museum. 



Trachyphonus darnaudii darnaudii 



Micropodon darnaudii Des Murs in Lefebvre, Abyss. 1850, 

 p. 133 : Kordofan. 



Trachypho7ius arnaudi Reichw. V. A. ii. p. 157 ; Butler, 

 Ibis, 1908, p 247. 



[B. coll.] 11 Bor Jan. May, July, Aug. Sept. Mon. 



We have no examples from anywhere near the type- 

 locality, so we can only follow Dr. Reichenow in believing 

 southern specimens to be identical with those froui Kordofan. 



Family Indicatohid.1!:. 



Indicator indicator. 



CvcuJus indicator Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 1, 1788, p. 418 : 

 South Africa. 



Indicator indicator (Gni.) and Indicator major Steph. ; 

 Reichw. V. A. ii. pp. 104, 106. 



Indicator sparrniani Steph. ; Butler, ibis, ]905, p. 357, 

 1908, p. 245, 1909, p. 87. 



[B. coll.] 1 Roseires Aug. Sen. ; 1 Wau Jan., '6 Pongo R. 

 Feb., 1 Kojali Mch. B.G. ; 2 Mongalla Jan. July; 

 1 Lado Feb., 2 Rejaf, Jan. Apl. L.E. 



[Chr. coll.] 1 Mt. Baginzi Mch. B.G. ; 3 Yei Sept. L.E. 



We follow Claude Grant (Ibis, 1915, p. 430) in regarding 

 /. indicator and I major as merely plumage i)hases of the 

 same bird and also in not recognizing any racial forms of 

 this species. 



Indicator minor diadematus. 



Indicator diadematus Riippell, N. Wirbelt. 1835, p. 61 : 

 Abyssinia. 



fndicator jnijior diadematus Kuip^. ; C.Grant, Ibis, 1915, 

 p. 432. 



Indicator minor apud Butler, Ibis, 1909, p. 87. 



