1. INDICATOR. 203 



from the north of the Transvaal to the Matabili country (^Buckley) ; Gambos, 

 Mossamedes (^Anchieta). N.E. Africa. Country near the sources of the 

 Gazelle River and to the southward, Abyssinia, Bogos, Galabat, Wau, and 

 Bongo (Heuglhi) ; Bari-Negro Land QMus. Wien). W. Africa. Gambia 

 (^RendalT) ; Casamanze (Ferreawa?). 



Specimens examined. 



E mus. Brit. — a. Gambia, b, c, d, e. River Gambia {Rendall). f. South Africa [Sir A. Smith). 

 E mus.R.B. S. — a. Casamanze ( Fe»7-eaM.r) . b. Bogos Land (^sfe?-) . c, 2. Elancrs Post^ May 20, 



1870, " iris hazel " (7". Atmore) . 

 E mus. T. E. Buckley. — a, 6 ad. Limpopo, Nov. 16, 1873. 



8. Indicator barianus. (^Vide Plate.) 



Indicator barianus, Heugi. Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856) ; Hartl. Om. Westafr. p. 274, note 

 (1857) ; Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 33 (descr. princ.) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Heia. Theil iv. 

 p. 5, note (1862) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 287 (1870) ; G^ay, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 205 

 (1870) j Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 518, note (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 

 p. 771 (1872). 



Indicator major, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 711. 



Adult. — Above dusky brown, with an olive shade, much yellower and 

 brighter on the head and neck ; the lower back, sides of rump, and outer 

 upper tail-coverts dull ashy brown ; the rump and central upper tail-coverts 

 yellowish white, some of the lateral coverts brown on the outer and white 

 on the inner webs ; wings entirely brown, narrowly margined with olive- 

 yellow, inclining to whitish on the greater series ; tail brown, the two centre 

 feathers lighter on the inner web and inclining to white near its base, the 

 next pair brown, white along the inner web, the next pair brown with scarcely 

 any inner margin of white, the next pair white inclining to brown along the 

 basal half of the inner web, the two outer feathers white tipped with brown, 

 the penultimate one brown at base of inner web ; ear-coverts blackish 

 brown ; cheeks and throat bright yellow, becoming paler on the breast and 



