794 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON A NEW INDICATOR. [Nov. 5, 



on comparing the two birds, that I. conirostris is a very distinct 

 species from I. minor, having the head and back strongly washed 

 with deep golden yellow, the centres of the feathers being blackish 

 instead of pale brown as in I. minor. This contrast is especially 

 seen in the wings, where the golden edgings to the black feathers stand 

 out in bold relief, and make them very different from the appearance 

 of the South-African species. The Fantee bird measures — total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 36, tail 2 - 6, tarsus - 6. 



Indicator archipelagicus (Temm.) : Sharpe, t. c. p. 197; id. 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 8. 



As already recorded by me (I. c.) Mr. Alfred Everett procured a 

 female specimen of this rare species at Bintulu, in North-western 

 Borneo. Temminck's description is not very good ; but the species 

 is unmistakable from its yellow shoulder-spot. 



Indicator exilis (Cass.): Sharpe, t. c. p. 198. 



A specimen of this little Honey-Guide was sent recently from 

 Landana, on the Congo, by M. Petit. 



Indicator Malayan us, sp. n. 



General colour above ashy, washed with olive-yellow, dimly on 

 the head and mantle, the feathers of the back and wings more dis- 

 tinctly edged with olive-yellow, the primaries scarcely perceptibly 

 margined ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged indistinctly with olive- 

 yellow, all but the two centre tail-feathers internally whity brown, 

 increasing in extent towards the outermost, which is almost entirely 

 whity brown, obliquely dark brown towards the tip ; sides of face 

 and ear-coverts dingy ash-colour with a very faint olive tinge ; 

 under surface of the body pale yellowish, creamy white on the chin 

 and upper throat, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; the 

 feathers of the breast and fore neck with mostly concealed greyish 

 bases, imparting a somewhat mottled appearance ; lower flanks mesially 

 streaked with dark brown ; under wing-coverts yellowish white, as 

 also the edge of the wing ; quills dark brown below, whitish along 

 the edge of the inner web. 



Total length 57 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3'9, tail 2'45, tar- 

 sus - 55. 



The specimen from which the above description is taken was 

 received by Mr. Henry Whitely, of Woolwich, in a large collection 

 sent direct from Malacca along with the usual Malaccan birds. 

 It cannot be the Himalayan species, I. xanthonotus, because the 

 latter has the back and rump yellow ; and it differs from the Bornean 

 Honey-Guide (/. archipelagicus) in wanting the yellow shoulder-spot, 

 grey breast, and flanks of the last-named bird, and in being alto- 

 gether larger. This latter fact seems to prevent the possibility of its 

 being considered a young bird of I. archipelagicus. 



I propose the following amended key for the genus Indicator : — 



