194 INDICATORIDiE. 



b' . Size larger; throat mottled with white, with which the feathers are edged. 



c" . Flanks streaked with dusky brown, the whitish mottled feathers not 

 continued below the breast, the abdomen being nearly uniform 

 whitish " varicyatus. 



d" . Flanks nearly uniform dusky brown, the entire under surface 



mottled with whitish like the throat maculatus. 



b. Hump and upper tail-coverts more or less white, not uniform with the back. 



c'. Least wing-coverts bright yellow, forming a shoulder-patch; throat in 

 male black ; rump streaked with brown and white ; flanks streaked 



with brown sparrmanni. 



d'. No shoulder-patch ; rump entirely white, not streaked with brown ; flanks 

 uniform, without brown streaks; head washed with yellow. 



e". Ear-coverts pale brown ; bill pale brown major. 



f". Ear-coverts blackish ; bill black bariantts. 



c. Hinder back and rump yellow xanthonotus . 



1. Indicator minor. 



Le Petit bidicateur, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. pi. 242 (1806) ; Sundev. Krit. om Levaill. p. 50 



(1858). 

 Indicator minor, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. part 1, p. 140 (1815) ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. M^th. iii. 



p. 1351 (1823) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 125 (1828) ; Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 196 



(1837) ; Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 96 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 451 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 100 (1850) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn.;W.Afi-. p. 196 (1857) ; 



Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 43 (1857) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 247, and 1860, p. 205 ; Cab. 



& Heine, Mus. Hein. Theil iv. p. 3 (1862) ; Sehl. Mus. P.-B. Cuculi, p. 2 (1864) ; Kirk, 



Ibis, 1864, p. 327 ; Layard, B. S. Afi-. p. 243 (1867) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. ra. p. 287 (1870) ; 



Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abyss, p. 307 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 205 (1870) ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 14 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 223 (1872) ; Heugl. 



Om. N.O.-Afr. p. 771 (1872). 

 Indicator minimus, Temm. PI. Col. 542. fig. 2 (1832) . 

 Indicator buphagoides, Leadb. Tr. Linn. Soe. xvi. p. 85 (1833). 

 Indicator diadematus, Hupp. Neue "Wirb. p. 61 (c. 1840). 

 Indicator apivorus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 78 (1854). 



Adult male. — Head and neck greyish, slightly washed with olive, the 

 crown indistinctly streaked with the dark brown bases to some of the 

 feathers ; the rest of the upper surface golden or olive-yellow, the inter- 



