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LITTLE HONEY GUIDE. 
Indicator minor, Auctorum. 
Head and neck above grey ; back, wings, and margin of the 
quill and tail-feathers, yellowish-olive ; plumage beneath 
cinereous ; chin and belly whitish. 
Le Petit Indicateur, Male, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Jf v. 242. 
The first discovery of tliis remarkably small Honey- 
guide was made by Le Yaillant in the Mimosa 
woods bordering the river of Elephants, and it was 
found in other similar situations in the south of 
Africa, but it does not appear to have been hitherto 
known as a native also of the western coast. A 
single specimen accompanied the collections from 
Senegal, and although Le Vaillant’s account of his 
Petit Indicateur is in some respects deficient in 
details, it agrees sufficiently well with the Senegal 
bird to lead us to believe they are both of the same 
species. 
The size of our specimen is below that of a 
sparrow, the length being only five inches and a 
half. The bill is thicker than in the other species, 
occasioned by the upper mandible being somewhat 
swollen or gibbous on its sides, quite as much as is 
seen in the bill of the Buphaga , to which genus 
