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Family INDICATOEID^ 



33. Indicator Sparrmanni, Steph. 



(?) Moroc or Bee Cuckoo, Brace's Travels, App. p. 178. 



Indicator Sparrmanni, Steph., Shaw's Zoology, Birds, ix. 138. 



I. albirostris, Temm. PI. col. 367. — Ferret et Gal. No. 33. — 



Lefebvre, p. 139. 

 I. flaviscxipulatus, Riipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 60. 

 I. archipelagicus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 349. — HeugL Syst. 



Uebers. No. 491. 

 J. pallidirostris, Heugl. Joum. f. Om. 1864, p. 265. 



Bill white, iris brown. 



I am indebted for a specimen of this rare species to 

 Mr. Jesse, who killed it on the Anseba, and, on one 

 occasion, actually shot a specimen calling upon a tree in 

 which was a Bees' nest. 



The bird is a male, and measures, wing 4'4, tail 3 '2 5, 

 whole length about 7 inches. 



34. I. minor, Steph. 



Stephens, Shaw's Zoology, ix. p. 140. 



I. diadematus, Eiipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 61. 



I. minor, Kiipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 350.— Brehin, Habesch, No. 1 14. 



? I. major, Lefebvre, p. 138. 



Iris brown, beak and legs dusky, nostrils subtubular 

 with raised margins as in cuckoos. 



I shot two specimens of this bird in the thickets on 

 the banks of the Anseba, where, however, it appeared 

 to be far from common. In one instance the Indicator 

 was in the act of chasing and fighting with a Wood- 

 pecker, Picus cethiopicus ; neither bird, however, uttering 

 any noise. The Indicator, when it settled, clung to a 

 stem like a "Woodpecker, but I did not see it climb in 

 the same way. 



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