1. INDICATOR. 201 



most quite white, with an oblique spot of brown near the tip of the outer 

 web ; bill brown, reddish on the under mandible. Total length 6'5 inches, 

 culmen 055, wing 4-05, tail 2-8, tarsus 07. 



Hahitat. — W. Africa. Senegambia (^Mus. Brit.} ; Gold Coast {Pel} ; 

 Gaboon, Ogowe river {Du Cliailhi). 



This species is here described for the first time, though well figured by 

 Gray and Mitchell in the ' Genera of Birds.' As with /. variegatus, it has 

 been considered to be the young of /. major, and was so described by Dr. 

 Hartlaub (/. c). To this view Mr. Cassin objected, as he received specimens 

 of either sex from the Gaboon ; and it is beyond much doubt that the mottled 

 birds are adult, and constitute a perfectly distinct species from /. major. By 

 this identification the range of the latter is much curtailed, as its supposed 

 occurrence in Sierra Leone, Dabocrom, and Gaboon rests entirely upon 

 "young" birds; and these, of course, are /. maculatiis , and not /. major 

 at all. 



Specimen examined. 

 E mus. Brit. — a. River Gambia. Presented by F. Campbell^ Esq. Type of species. 



7. Indicator sparrmannt. 



Honey -Guide, Sparmm. Phil. Trans. Ixvii. p. 38, pi. 1 (1777). 



Le Coucou Indicateur, Montb. N. H. Ois. vi. p. 392 (1779). 



Honey Cuckoo, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. part 2, p. 533 (1782). 



Cuculus indicator, Gm. S. N. i. p. 418 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 218 (1790) ; Wald. Ibis, 



1869, p. 337. 

 Indicator sparrmanni, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 138 (1815) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 100 (1850) ; Horsf. 



& Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-I. Co. ii. p. 680 (1854) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Theil iv. 



p. 6 (1862) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Cucidi, p. 2 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 204 (1870) ; 



Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abyss, p. 307 (1870) ; Fiusch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 286 (1870) ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 14 (1871) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afi-. p. 766 (1872) ; Antin. & Salvad. 



Ucc. Bogos, p. 46 (1878) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 368. 

 Indicator major $ , Bonn. & Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1350 (1823). 

 Indicator albirostris, Temm. PI. Col. 367 (1825) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 125 (1828) ; id. 



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