INDICATORIN^. 
The species of this genus inhabit the wooded districts of Africa, and the forests of India and the Island of Borneo. 
They are usually observed in pairs in the neighbourhood of nests of wild bees, which are formed in the trunks of trees. 
The honey stored up by these insects is the chief food of the birds, who often pay dearly for attacking the nest, being 
sometimes found dead in the hives, having been stung to death, in which case the bees cover in the body with a vault of 
wax, that they may not be incommoded by its presence. Their flight is heavy, and continued only for a short distance 
at a time. They utter a continued cry, which makes them easy of discovery. The nest is formed in the holes of trees. 
The female deposits three or four eggs, and the male assists in the hatching. 
1. ? I. Sparmanni Shaw. — Cuculus indicator Linn. Mill. Cim. 
Phys. pi. 
2. I. major Shaw, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 139. pl- 27-, Levaill. Ois. 
d'Afr. t. 241. ; Gal. des Ois. t. 46. — I. flavicollis Swains. ; I. Le- 
vaillantii Leadb. 
3. I. Levaillantii Temm. PI. col. (description). 
4. I. minor Shaw, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 140., Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. 
t. 242. — Indicator minimus Temm. PI. col. 542. f. 2. ; I. diade- 
matus Riipp. ; I. buphagoides Leadb. 
5. I. maculatus G.R.Gray. — Indicator Sparmanni Leadb. 
Linn. Trans, xvi. p. Ql- 
6. .'' I. variegatus Less. Tr. d'Ornith. p. 155., Guar. Iconogr. 
Ois. t. 32. f. 2. 
7. I. alhirostris Temm. PI. col. 367- — Indicator albicollis 
Leadb. ; I. flavicollis et I. leucotis Swains. ; I. flaviscapulatus 
Riipp. ? 
8. I. archipelagieus Temm. PI. col. 542. f. 1. 
9. I. xanthonotus Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1841. p. 928., 
1842. p. l66., 1843. p. 942, pl. 
March, 1847. 
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