208 INDICATORIDJil. 



1. Prodotiscus regui.us. QVide Plate.) 



Prodotiscus reguhis, Sunclcv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1850^ p. 109; Ilartl. Orn. Westafi;. 



p. 18G, note ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Theil iv. p. 5, note. 

 Indicator regidus, Liclit. Nomencl. Av. p. 78 (185-1) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 205 (1870). 



Adult female.— GQwevdX colour earthy brown, including the sides of the 

 face and neck ; a tuft of white feathers on each side of the lower back ; 

 underneath rather more ashy brown, the centre of the body and under tail- 

 coverts yellowish white, the latter with a few^ hair-like shaft-streaks ; under 

 wing-coverts white, the feathers near the edge of the wing brown ; wings 

 brown, the quills darker, the secondaries edged with whity brown ; tail dark 

 brown, the three outer feathers white on the outer web, extending for more 

 than half of the two outermost, but less extended on the third ; bill and feet 

 blackish. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0"5, wing 3, tail 2"15, tarsus 0*45. 



Habitat. — " Upper and Lower Caffraria " (JVahlherg^ ; Natal (Wahlherg, 

 Mus. Brit.}. 



This plain-coloured Honey-guide is certainly rare in collections, and 

 does not seem to be abundant even in Natal, as neither Mr. Ayres nor Capt. 

 Shelley have met with it. Owing to the indefinite character of Wahlberg's 

 locality for the species, it was entirely omitted from Mr. Layard's 'Birds of 

 South Africa.' The description is taken from a specimen received by me in 

 exchano;e from the Stockholm Museum. 



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Specimens examined. 



E mus. Brit. — a, b, c. Natal. 



E mus. R. B. S.—a, 5 . Port Natal, Aug. 25, 1840 {Wahlberg). 



2. Prodotiscus insignis. 



Hetcerodes insignis, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1856, p. 157, & 1859, p. 142, pi. ] . fig. 2 ; Heine, 

 J. f. O. 1860, p. 192 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 192. 



