Birds of Southern Cameroon. 503 



Indicator maculatus. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 440. 



No. 4204. c? . Bitye, June 1910. Iris dark brown ; bill 

 blackish ; feet dull yellow and grey. Nostrils of a long-oval 

 shape, with a raised rim. 



In this specimen the small feathers of the forehead, and 

 especially those of the sides of the head, are margined with 

 yellowish white, making those parts appear streaked. The 

 specimen previously reported also had this character, but in 

 a less degree; while neither the type-specimen nor Gray's 

 plate shew it at all. Reicheuow mentions it only as regards 

 the forehead. Probably these whitish streaks are a mark of 

 the fully adult bird, like the streaks on the throat of Trachy- 

 Icemus purpuratus. 



Indicator stictothorax. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 440 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 15. 

 No. 4272. ? (not breeding). Bitye, July 1910. 

 My previous specimens were obtained in the forest near 

 the coast. This is a very different bird from /. maculatus. 



Indicator conirostris. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. G16 ; 1907, p. 440 ; Bates, Ibis, 

 1909, p. IG. 



Another nestling Indicator, probably /. conirostris, has 

 been found in the hole of a Barbet, this time Barbatula 

 leucoleema. The old Barbet was caught in the hole with it, 

 but there was no other nestling. The hole had the entrance 

 just the size of an average finger-ring, and much too small 

 to admit a grown Honey-Guide of this species. The egg 

 may, of course, have been carried and dropped into the hole 

 by the bird with its bill. It is a harder problem to explain 

 hoAv the young Honey-Guide could ever have got out of the 

 hole if it had remained till it grew larger. 



This nestling Indicator had the openings of the eyes very 

 small. It had sharp-pointed tubercles on the heels ; the 

 skin of the nestling No. 2116, already mentioned (' Ibis,' 

 1909, p. 16) also shews these tubercles. 



Two adult female specimens that were found to be just 



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