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in abundance is the vivacious brown 

 wings, termed by witty widows the 



bird found here 



chat with white 



flirting chat, because it spends so much time in courting 



the hens. These birds seem to be dancing, singing, or 



fluttering in the air as long as the sun shines. 



The Honey-guide (Indicator major). 



Natives find this bird useful, as it leads them to the bees' nests, but 

 sportsmen regard it as a nuisance, for it alarms the game by its 

 twittering. 



The honey-guides have nothing to recommend them- 

 selves to the notice of man in the way of size or 

 plumage. They are about the size of larks, with dun- 

 coloured plumage and bills like sparrows. Some of 

 these birds have the habit of leading men to the nests 

 of bees. This habit was first described by Sparrman 



