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of the neck, middle of the rump, upper tail-coverts, some of the 

 lesser wing-coverts, all of the median and greater coverts and the 

 quills broadly tipped with huffish white ; forehead, nape, and sides of 

 the head almost white ; the latter washed on the lores, cheeks, and 

 ear-coverts with dusky grey. Tail with some five or six obsoletely 

 paler hands, the base of the one near the end well defined by trian- 

 gular white marks on the sides of the feathers, the other bands 

 only indicated by smaller white marks confined to their inner 

 webs, base of the tail white. Underparts whitish buff shaded 

 with rufous buff on the sides of the body, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts, the latter have two broad black bars across them ; under 

 surface of the wing-coverts rufous buff; quills dusky brown, fading 

 into white towards the bases of their inner webs, all the quills 

 broadly tipped with white. Total length 15*2 inches, culraen 0-9, 

 wing 9, tail 8'3, tarsus 1. 



There is a nestling of this species iu the British Museum labelled 

 " W. Africa, DuChaillu," from which I conclude that it is a Central- 

 African species occasionally extending to the coast both in the east 

 and west. 



137. Indicator major, Steph. 



Indicator major, Sharpe, in Dawson Rowley's Orn. Miscell. i. 

 p. 204 ; Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. 1886, p. 311. 



No. 131. 5. Wadelai, Sept. 15, 1885. 



Iris umber-brown ; bare skin on head leaden grey ; bill black ; 

 legs dusky. 



138. Indicator emini, sp. n. (Plate III.) 

 No. 675. 6. Wadelai, June 23, 1883. 



Bill slight. Upper parts uniform dusky brown, very slightly 

 shaded with olive on the crown and back of the neck, slightly more 

 so with deep yellow on the back and scapulars, increasing in amount 

 of yellow on the rump, where a few feathers show white ends ; wings 

 dark brown ; the coverts shading into olive-yellow on their edges, 

 the quills edged with deep yellow ; tail, four centre featliers entirely 

 brown, remainder white, with the base only of the next pair to the 

 four centre feathers dusky brown. Underparts, including the under 

 tail-coverts, ashy brown, fading into white on the centre and sides 

 of the abdomen behind the thighs. Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 

 0-3, wing 2-6, tail 2-1, tarsus O'S. 



In its slight bill this species approaches nearest to 7. major, and 

 by that character alone it may be readily distinguished from all the 

 other known species of Honey-Guides. It is very distinct from any 

 other member of the genus, and I am pleased to be able to name such 

 a striking species after its celebrated discoverer. 



139. MusoPHAGA ross«, Gould. 



Musophaga rossce, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. 1884, 

 p. 433 ; Schalow, J. f. O. 1886, p. 14. 

 No. 12. $. Tingasi, Aug. 10, 1883. 



