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WHITE-EARED HONEYGUIDE. 
Indicator leucotis, Swains. 
Greyish-brown above ; whitish beneath ; chin with a largo 
blackish patch ; base of the shoulder yellow ; ears pure 
white ; bill yellow. 
Indicator albirostris, Tern. PI. Col. 867. 
More than five years before this species appeared 
in the Planches Coloriees, under the erroneous 
name of albirostris, we had examined a specimen 
sent by M. Wiedeman from the borders of the great 
Fish river of Southern Africa, and had named it 
leucotis, from the remarkable whiteness of the ear- 
feathers ; we should not, however, have retained it, 
but that the bill is not white, but yellow. Since 
that time, as other specimens appear to have been 
received from Senegal, we include it in our present 
work. 
The account given by the celebrated botanist and 
traveller Sparman, respecting the instincts of the 
Honeyguides, are now sufficiently authenticated and 
are too well known to be here repeated. The ridi- 
cule which Bruce, who, whatever were his other 
merits, was totally unacquainted with natural his- 
tory, has attempted to throw upon this account, 
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