204 INDICATORIDvE. 



shading off into white on the belly and under tail-coverts ; outer aspect of 

 thighs blackish, streaked with yellow ; bill black. Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen 0'55, wing 43, tail 3, tarsus 07. 



The above description is taken from a Mombas skin, collected by the 

 Rev. J. M. Wakefield, and now^ in the British Museum. I was at first inclined 

 to consider it undescribed, as Dr. Finsch has not admitted Von Heuglin's 

 Indicator harianus as a species. The latter author, however, in his latest work 

 on the birds of North-eastern Africa, has insisted once more on the recognition 

 of /. harianus ; and I find that the Mombas skin agrees so well with Von 

 Heuglin's description that I cannot doubt their identity. /. harianns must 

 therefore be considered a good species ; and for the sake of comparison I 

 reproduce the diagnosis given by the original describer : — 



" Like /. major ; bill stronger, more elongate, dusky black ; lores and 

 ear-coverts smoky brown ; shoulder-spot bright yellow. Upper surface smoky 

 brown, washed with olivaceous ; lores and ear-coverts darker ; underneath 

 white, the throat and breast shaded with a wash of buffy yellow : middle 

 upper tail-coverts pure white. Total length 6 inches 10 lines, wing 4 inches 

 2| lines, tail 2 inches 8 lines. 



Habitat. — Bari-Negro Land (^Heiigliti) ; Mombas (JVakefielcV). 



Specimen examined. 

 E mus. Brit. — a^ ad. Mombas {Wakefield). 



9. Indicator major. 



Le Ch-and Indicateur, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. pi. ^1. fig. 1 (1806) ; Sundev. Krit. om Levaill. 



p. 50 (1858). 

 Indicator major, Stepli. Gen. Zool. ix. pt. 1, p. 140, j)l. 27. fig. 1 (1815, ex Levaill.) ; Vieill. 



et Oud. Gal. Ois. i. p. 39, pi. 45 ; Lefebvr. Voy. Abyss. Ois. p. 138 ; Yerr. t. c. p. 177a ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 451 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 100 (1850) ; Hartl. Om. Westafr. 



p. 183 (1857) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Heiii. iv. p. 5, note (1862) ; Gumey, Ibis, 1862, 



p, 33 ; Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 35 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Cuculi, p. 2 (1864) ; Layard, B. 



