GREAT HONEY-GUIDE. 



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white, with a longitudinal streak of black on each 

 feather : upper wing-coverts grey brown, some of 

 them tipped with yellow, forming a spot of that 

 colour on the shoulders, which is generally covered 

 by the scapulars: quills brown above; grey brown 

 beneath : bastard wing grey brown : tail composed 

 of twelve feathers, the middle ones very narrow 

 and short; rusty brown both above and below; 

 the two next, on each side, white, with brown tips, 

 and a black spot on the inner webs at the base ; 

 the outer one shorter than the rest, and similar to 

 the last, except that the black spot is not quite so 

 conspicuous. Is said by Sparrman to inhabit the 

 interior of the country from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where it is very common. 



GREAT HONEY-GUIDE. 

 (Indicator major.) 



I. olivctceo'viridis, subtus jlavescens, uropygio tectricibusque albis. 

 Olive-green Honey-guide, beneath yellow, with the rump and 



tail- coverts white. 

 Le Grand Indicateur. Le VailL Ois. d'Afr. 5. 1. mas. 2. female. 



Length about ten inches : the upper part of 

 the head, hinder part of the neck, wing-coverts, 

 and back are brownish olive-green, yellowish in a 

 certain light: rump white; upper tail-coverts white 

 varied with olive : wing-quills dirty olive-brown, 

 externally olive-green: the three outer tail-feathers 



