INDICATOEID^ 



INDICATOR 



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Key of the Genera. 



A. Tail of twelve feathers ; bill deeper than broad ... Indicator, ]^. Ii5. 



B, Tail of ten feathers ; bill broader than deep Prodotisous, ^. 165. 



Genus I. INDICATOR. 



Type. 



IndioatoP, Stephens, Gen. Zool. ix, p. 131 (1815) I. sparrmani. 



Bill stout and finch-like, deeper than broad, with a well-marked 

 Gulminal ridge which is somewhat arched ; nostrils lateral and 

 exposed with a narrow superior membrane ; no nasal plumes or 



Fig. 48. — Tail of Indicator sparrmani. x -j^. 



rictal bristles ; wing with nine primaries only ; tarsus short ; toes 

 well developed, the first and fourth posteriorly directed, the second 

 and third anteriorly, the outer anterior (the third) the longest ; tail 

 square except for the outer pair of rectrices, which are shorter and 

 narrower than the others ; tail feathers twelve in number. 



The birds of this genus are remarkable for the habit of pointing 

 10 VOL. HI. 



