PICIDJE. 



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regions," was contained in his last collection, and is the most 

 westerly example which I have seen of this species. This speci- 

 men is now in the collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe. — Ed.] 



CUCULID^. 



267. Indicator minor, Steph. Little Honey-Guide. 



Le petit Indicateur, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 242. 

 Indicator minor, Layard's Oat. No. 48Q. 



„ „ Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 515. 



„ „ Sharpe's Oat. No. 126. 



This species is met with sparingly in Damara Ijand 

 throughout the year; and I have also observed it in 

 Great Namaqua Land. It occurs either singly or in 

 pairs, and feeds on small bees, ants, &c. The stomach 

 also invariably contains a white substance surrounding 

 the other food; but what this substance is I cannot 

 make out. 



The iris is very dark brown ; the upper mandible and 

 the extremity of the lower are dark horn-colour, the 

 rest of the lower mandible is livid ; the legs and toes 

 are lead-coloured, tinged with green in front. 



Measurements of a male : — 



Entire length . . . 

 Leng-tli of folded wing 



„ tarsus . . 



„ middle toe 



„ tail 



„ bill 



[According to Mr. Layard and Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub 

 {loc. cit.), the Honey-Guides, like the Cuckoos, lay their eggs in 

 the nests of other birds — a circumstance which confirms the 



