]i)8 INDICATORID^. 



Professor Schlegel gives the following diagnosis of the species, which I 

 reproduce. (The description is translated from Temminck.) 



" Underneath white, more or less inclining to greyish ; above brown, 

 passing to greyish on the neck and head, the feathers bordered with yellow ; 

 shoulders yellow ; upper mandible brown ; the lower one white, broAvn at the 

 tip. Wing 3 inches (5—7 lines, tail 2 inches 4 lines." 



4. Indicator exilis. 



Melignothes exilis, Cass. Pr. Phil. Acad. 1856^ p. 157, et 1859, p. 143, pi. 1. fig. 1 ; Hartl. 



J. f. 0. 1861, p. 264. 

 Indicator exilis, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 185 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 205. 

 Melignostes exilis, Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 192. 



Adult. — Head greenish grey, with distinct streaks of black on the fore- 

 head ; rest of the upper surface olive golden, the centres of the feathers 

 blackish brown, giving a distinctly streaked appearance to the back and 

 wing-coverts ; quills brown, the feathers margined with olive golden, broader 

 on the secondaries ; four centre tail-feathers blackish, margined with olive, 

 the rest of the feathers white, the two outer ones tipped with brown, the 

 bases of all but the outermost brow^n on the outer web ; sides of face, neck, 

 and underparts ashy grey, the breast strongly washed with olive-green ; 

 feathers below the ear- coverts and cheeks greyish black ; sides of vent 

 distinctly streaked with brown, the edges to these plumes being white ; 

 under wing-coverts whitish, slightly shaded with brown near the tips, the 

 feathers near the edge of the wing greyish. Total length 4 inches, culmen 

 0'35, wing 25, tail r76, tarsus 0"5. 



Habitat. — Gaboon, Moonda and Camraa rivers (Z>m ChaUhi). 



Specimen examined. 



E vms. Brit. — a, ad. Camma river [Du Chaillu). 



