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sparrman's honey- guide. 



There is great probability of one of these birds 

 proving the Gnat Snapper of Kolben ; of which 

 he says the note is not so fine as that of a Tit- 

 mouse, and that it is a guide to the Hottentots, by 

 directing them to the honey which the bees lay 

 up in the clefts of the rock. 



sparrman's honey-guide. 



(Indicator Sparrmanii.) 



I. corpore Jerrugineo-griseo subtus albido ; humeris macula flam, 



rectricibus tribus exterioribus basi macula nigra. 

 Honey-guide with a ferruginous grey body, beneath white ; a 



yellow spot on the shoulders; and the three exterior tail-? 



feathers with a black spot at the base. 

 Cuculus indicator. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 418. — Lath. Ind. Orn, 



h 218. 35. 



Le Coucou indicateur. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 3Q2. 

 Honey-guide. Phil. Trans. Of. 38. 1. 



Honey Cuckow. Lath. Gen. Syn, 2. 533. — Lath. Sup. 101. 



This species, which is the one figured and de- 

 scribed by Sparrman, is in length seven inches : 

 beak half an inch ; yellowish at the tip ; thickened, 

 and brown towards the base, which is armed with 

 a few bristles, and in the male encircled with 

 black : irides ferruginous grey : eyelids naked 

 black : top of the head grey ; the feathers broad 

 and short : chin, throat, and breast dirty white, 

 with a green tinge on the latter : back and rump 

 ferruginous grey: belly and vent white: thighs 



