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YELLOW-THROATED HONEYGUIDE. 



Indicator Jlavicollis, SWAINS. 



Above olive-brown ; rump and body beneath white ; chin, 

 throat, and breast, clear fulvous- yellow ; immaculate. 



Le Grand Indicateur, Indicator Major, Vieil. Gall. pi. 45. 



WE can find no record of this Honeyguide as a 

 distinct species in any of the modern publications, 

 although it has been figured by Yieillot under the 

 belief that it is the Great Honeyguide of Le Yail- 

 lant. A specimen, in an indifferent state, sent from 

 Sierra Leone, has long been in our possession, but 

 a much finer, obviously in the most perfect state of 

 adult plumage, has more recently come from Senegal, 

 so that all suspicions of our first specimen being a 

 young or imperfectly fledged bird are now removed. 

 We suspected, moreover, that it might have been 

 the great Indicator of Le Yaillant, particularly as it 

 exactly agrees with his description in regard to the 

 white on the rump and on the tail-feathers ; but it 

 seems that both the species he has described have 

 their tails coloured in the same way, while the 

 Senegal bird, instead of " having the whole of the 

 front of the neck, from the beak to the breast, 

 marked with greyish-white in the middle of the 



