138 SPARRMAN'S HONEY- GUIDE. 



There is great probability of one of these birds 

 proving the Gnat Snapper of Kolben ; of which 

 he says the note is not so fine as that of a Tit- 

 mouse, and that it is a guide to the Hottentots, by 

 directing them to the honey which the bees lay 

 up in tjie clefts of the rock. 



SPARRMAN'S HONEY-GUIDE. 



(Indicator Sparrmanii.) 



I. corporejerrugineo-griseo subtus albido ; humeris macula Jlava, 

 rectricibus tribus exterioribus basi macula nigra. 



Honey-guide with a ferruginous grey body, beneath white ; a 

 yellow spot on the shoulders; and the three exterior tail- 

 feathers with a black spot at the base. 



Cuculus indicator. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 418. Lath. Ind* Orn. 

 1. 218. 35. 



Le Coucou indicateur. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 3Q2. 



Honey-guide. Phil. Trans. 67. 38. 1. 



Honey Cuckow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 533. Lath. Sup. 101. 



THIS species, which is the one figured and de- 

 scribed by Sparrman, is in length seven inches : 

 beak half an inch ; yellowish at the tip ; thickened, 

 and brown towards the base, which is armed with 

 a few bristles, and in the male encircled with 

 black : irides ferruginous grey : eyelids naked 

 black : top of the head grey ; the feathers broad 

 and short : chin, throat, and breast dirty white, 

 with a green tinge on the latter : back and rump 

 ferruginous grey : belly and vent white : thighs 



