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the deeper. The whole bone is long and flat, and 

 rather narrow, becoming gradually broader behind ; the 

 ridge low with a straight edge. Judging from the 

 sternum, I should certainly be disposed to place Indi- 

 cator with the Barbets or Colies rather than with the 

 Cuckoos. It is evidently a bird of weak flight. 



It is not clear to what bird Bruce refers under the 

 name of the Moroc or Bee Cuckoo. His figure resembles 

 Oxylojphus or Chrysococcyx ; and if, as he states, it is 

 of the natural size, it should be the latter : but the 

 description of the colouring by no means accords, and 

 agrees rather with that of Indicator Sparrmanni, 

 though difiering in several particulars, some of which 

 must certainly be erroneous — such as the statement that 

 it has only three toes. He relates concerning it the 

 usual stories told of Indicator; which, however, he treats 

 as fables : his own account of the habits seems to agree 

 best with those of a Merops. It is by no means 

 improbable that the drawing was made from Oxylophus 

 glandarius or O. jacobinus, and the description drawn 

 up from memory. 



Family CAPITONED^. 

 35. Pogonorhynchus abyssinicus (Latham). 



Phytotoma ahyssinica, Latham, Ind. Orn. Supp. xlix. 



Bucco SaUii, Stanley, Salt's Journey, Appendix, p. Kv. 



Fogonias Brucei, Riipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 50, t. 20, fig. 1. 



Laimodon Brucei, Kiipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 338. 



Fogonias gnisso hcdito, Bruce ? Ferret et Gal. No. 38. 



P. Tubrifrons, Lefebvre, p. 128. 



Fogonias SaUii, Brehm, Habesch, No. 111. 



I obtained one specimen of this bird close to the camp 

 at Dongolo, on Dahro {Fic^.s dahero), but I never saw it 



