140 LITTLE HONEY-GUIDE. 



on each side are white with a brown spot at the 

 tip ; the remainder of the tail-feathers olive-brown, 

 with their outer webs white: fore-part of the neck 

 and the breast pale yellow ; the middle of the neck 

 varied with black spots, which ascend to the throat; 

 all the rest of the under part of the body yellow : 

 beak, legs, nails, and eyes brown. Female rather 

 less than the male ; the olive-green colour more 

 yellow than in the male : the forehead spotted 

 with yellowish-white : the throat, front of the neck, 

 breast and flanks varied with brownish-black and 

 yellowish-white : in other respects she is like the 

 male ; which, when voung, is similar in colour. 



This species inhabits Auteniquoi and CafTraria : 

 the female lays four dirty-white eggs, which the 

 male occasionally sits on, to relieve the female, 

 during the tedious process of incubation. 



LITTLE HONEY-GUIDE. 

 (Indicator minor.) 



I. griseo-olivaceus \ remigibus perfuscis viridi-Jlavo marginatis ; 



ventre caudaque albidis kdc pennis intermediis nigris ; rostr-o, 



oculis pedibusque brunneis. 

 Olive-grey Honey-guide ; with the quills brownish, margined 



with yellow; belly and tail whitish, the latter with the middle 



feathers black ; beak, eyes, and feet brown. 

 Le petit Indicateur. Le Vail. Ois. d'Afriq. 5. 137- p. 242. 



THIS species was first observed by Le Vaillant 

 in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope, having 



