1. INDICATOR. 197 



rostris (cf. Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 287) Heuglin's /. pachjrliijnchus*, and believes 

 that they are both referable to the ordmary species. Judging from Cassin's 

 figure and Hartlaub's description, I should say that the Gaboon bird is 

 brighter in colour than birds from either South or N.E. Africa, and is more 

 striped in appearance by reason of the dark centres to the feathers of its 

 upper surface. Dr. von Heuglin (/. c.) objects to his Melignostes pachyrkynchus 

 being extinguished as a species. He says that it is allied to Indicator exilis, 

 and has no brown terminal spot to the outer tail-feather. The type is no 

 longer to be found in the Stuttgart Museum ; so he contents himself with 

 giving a description in a footnote ; but the species is very probably distinct. 

 He found it in the wood-region of the headwaters of the Gazelle River during 

 the rainy season. 



3. Indicator archipelagicus. 



Indicator archipelagicus, Temm. PI. Col. 542^ fig. 2 (1832) ; S. Miill. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- 

 en Yolkenk. p. 234. (c. 1840) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 100 (1850) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. 

 iv. p. 4, note (1862) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Cziculi, p. 3 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 205 

 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 773 (1872) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 61 (1874). 



Adult. — Entire upper surface, wings, and middle tail-feathers brown, 

 each feather having a small green border ; bend of wing and a part of the 

 bastard wing beautiful yellow ; throat whitish ; chest and flanks grey ; 

 stomach and abdomen whitish, marked on the flank-feathers with long 

 brown stripes ; the external tail-feathers white, with brown tips. The skin 

 in this species is thick and hard, like that of the others. Total length 

 6 inches 3 lines. 



Habitat. — Borneo, Pontianak {Diard^ ; Karou river QSchwaner). 



* Indicator pachyrhynchus. 



Melignostes pachyrhynchus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 265 ; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafi-. 

 p. 517, note (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 773 (1872). 



