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LITTLE HONEY-GUIDE. 



on each side are white with a brown spot at the 

 tip ; the remainder of the tail-feathers olive-brown, 

 with their outer webs white: fore-part of the neck 

 and the breast pale yellow ; the middle of the neck 

 varied with black spots, which ascend to the throat; 

 all the rest of the under part of the body yellow : 

 beak, legs, nails, and eyes brown. Female rather 

 less than the male ; the olive-green colour more 

 yellow than in the male : the forehead spotted 

 with yellowish-white : the throat, front of the neck, 

 breast and flanks varied with brownish-black and 

 yellowish-white : in other respects she is like the 

 male ; which, when young, is similar in colour. 



This species inhabits Auteniquoi and Caffraria : 

 the female lays four dirty-white eggs, which the 

 male occasionally sits on, to relieve the female, 

 during the tedious process of incubation* 



LITTLE HONEY-GUIDE. 

 (Indicator minor.) 



I. griseo-olivaceus ; remigibus perfuscis viridi-Jlavo marginatis ; 



ventre caudaque albidis hdc pennis intermediis nigris ; rostro, 



oculis pedibusque brunneis. 

 Olive-grey Honey-guide ; with the quills brownish, margined 



with yellow; belly and tail whitish, the latter with the middle 



feathers black ; beak, eyes, and feet brown. 

 Le petit Indicateur. Le Vail. Ois. d'Afriq. 5. 137.p. 242. 



This species was first observed by Le Vaillant 

 in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope, having 



