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instead of a light yellowish-olive ; chin and throat yellowish- 

 white streaked with dark greenish, and paler thati in /. sticti- 

 thorax ; feathers of the breast dark greenish, with twin-spots 

 of yellowish-white ; middle of the abdomen pale yellow. 

 Iris brown; bill brown ; legs and feet greenish. 



Total len,t;th about 170 mm.; culmen 10; wing 106; 

 tail 85. 



Hab. Gudima, R. Iri, 28. viii. 06. 



Mr. Boyd Alexander also made the following; remarks 

 on certain species of Indicator : — 



He stated that he had now proved to his own satisfaction 

 that /. major, Steph., was synonymous with /. indicator 

 (Gmel.). The former was supposed to differ from /. indi- 

 cator in having the bases of many of the feathers of the 

 chin and throat' yellow ; the breast washed with yellow ; the 

 shoulder-patch much reduced in size or absent ; and the 

 wing-coverts devoid of white edges. 



Mr. Alexander exhibited a nearly adult male of /. indi- 

 cator which possessed all the above-mentioned characters 

 attributed to /. major. In the British Museum there were 

 several specimens showing the same change of plumage. 



Up to the present time birds with almost uniform yellow 

 underparts had been regarded as females or young males of 

 /. major, and in this stage of plumage had been named 

 /. barianus, Heugl., and /. fiavicollis, Swains. 



Three specimens procured by the Alexander-Gosling 

 Expedition showed the following stages of plumage : — 



(1) A specimen shot in May had the entire underparts 



briglit yellow, and showed no indication of a yellow 

 shoulder-patch. 



(2) In a second specimen, shot in August, the yellow of 



the underparts was disappeai'ing, black feathers were 

 beginning to make their appearance on the chin and 

 throat, and there were indications of a yellow 

 shoulder-patch. 



(3) A third example, obtained in October, was even 



less brightly coloured than the above-mentioned 



