WHITE-EARED HONTYGU1DE. 



Indicator leucotis^ SWAINS. 



Greyish-brown above ; whitish beneath ; chin with a large 

 blackish patch ; base of the shoulder yellow ; ears pure 

 white ; bill yellow. 



Indicator albirostris, Tern. PL Col. 867. 



MORE than five years before this species appeared 

 in the Planches Coloriees, under the erroneous 

 name of albirostris^ we had examined a specimen 

 sent by M. Wiedeman from the borders of the great 

 Fish river of Southern Africa, and had named it 

 leucotis, from the remarkable whiteness of the ear- 

 feathers ; we should not, however, have retained it, 

 but that the bill is not white, but yellow. Since 

 that time, as other specimens appear to have been 

 received from Senegal, we include it in our present 

 work. 



The account given by the celebrated botanist and 

 traveller Sparman, respecting the instincts of the 

 Honej guides, are now sufficiently authenticated and 

 are too well known to be here repeated. The ridi- 

 cule which Bruce, who, whatever were his other 

 merits, was totally unacquainted with natural his- 

 tory, has attempted to throw upon this account, 



TOL. Till. x 



