334 AVES. 
InpicaTor, Vaill. 
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The Indicators are also inhabitants of Africa, and, as. he feed - 
on honey, have become celebrated for guiding the natives the 
retreats of the wild, bees, which they seek with loud cries. Their 
beak is short, high, and nearly conical, like that of the Finch. Their 
tail of twelve quills is at once slightly cuneiform, and partly forked. 
Their singularly hard skin shields them from the stings of the 
bees, which, being contintially persecuted, gente kill them 
by attacking their eyes.) The _* 
Barsacous, Vaill.(2) . = 
Have a conical, elongated beak, but little compressed, and slightly 
arcuated at the end, whose base is furnished with slender feathers 
or stiff hairs, which ally them to the Barbets.(3) 
Macon, Vaill.(4) 
A very stout beak, round at base, and arcuated near the point, with 
a large naked space about the eyes. The nostrils of some(5) are 
round, and placed near the base of the beak, in others they are nar- 
row and situated near its edge.(6) They are natives of Ceylon, and 
as it is said, live chiefly on fruit. 
It is probable that we should distinguish those species in which the 
beak is not so stout, and which have scarcely any of the naked space 
about the eyes.(7) 
Scyrurops, Lath. 
The beak still longer and stouter than that of Malcoha, and 
(1) Cuculus indicator, Vaill. Afr. 241;—minor, Nob. Id. 24;—albirostris, T. Col. 
367. Vieill. has adopted this name and genus, Gal. 45. 
(2) Barbacou, composed of barbet and cuckoo. From it Vieill. has made his genus 
Monasra, Gal. 36. 
(3) Cuculus tranquillus, Enl. 512; Spix, 41, 2;—C. tenebrosus, Enl. 505, and 
Col. 323, 2;—C. rufalbinus, T. Col. 323;—Monasa personata, Vieill. Gal. 36, or 
Bucco albifrons, Spix, 41. 
N.B. We should also observe, that the Cuc. paradisxus, Briss. IV, pl. xiv, A, 1, 
is the Drongo de Paradis (Lanius malabaricus), and that the Cuc. sinensis, Id. Ib. A, 
2, is the Corvus erythrorhynchos. These two remarks are from Le Vaillant, who. 
has done more to elucidate the history of the Cuckoos than any other naturalist. 
(4) Vieill. calls the Malcoha, Puc:xtcornzxvs, Gal. 37. 
(5) The Malcoha Rouverdin, Vaill. Afr. 223. . 
(6) The Malcoha, 1d., 224; or Cuc. pyrrocephalus, Forster, 3, Vieill. Gal. 37. 
(7) The Malcoha @ bec peint ( Phaenicophzus calyorhynchus, T. ) Col. 349;—Phe- 
ni. javanicus, Horsf., Jav. 
