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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
Indicator maculatus. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907', p. 440. 
No. 4204. <$. Bitye, June 1910. Iris dark brown ; bill 
blackish ; feet dull yellow and grey. Nostrils of a long-oval 
shape, with a raised rim. 
In this specimen the small feathers of the forehead, and 
especially those of the sides of the head, are margined with 
yellowish white, making those parts appear streaked. The 
specimen previously reported also had this character, but in 
a less degree; while neither the type-specimen nor Gray's 
plate shew it at all. Beiclienow mentions it only as regards 
the forehead. Probably these whitish streaks are a mark of 
the fully adult bird, like the streaks on the throat of Trachy- 
leemus purpuratus . 
Indicator stictothorax. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 440 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 15. 
No. 4272. $ (not breeding). Bitye, July 1910. 
My previous specimens were obtained in the forest near 
the coast. This is a very different bird from I. maculatus. 
Indicator conirostris. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 616; 1907, p. 440 ; Bates, Ibis, 
1909, p. 16. 
Another nestling Indicator , probably I. conirostris , has 
been found in the hole of a Barbet, this time Barbatula 
leucolcema . The old Barbet was caught in the hole with it, 
but there was no other nestling. The hole had the entrance 
just the size of an average finger-ring, and much too small 
to admit a grown Honey-Guide of this species. The egg 
may, of course, have been carried and dropped into the hole 
by the bird with its bill. It is a harder problem to explain 
how the young Honey-Guide could ever have got out of the 
hole if it had remained till it grew larger. 
This nestling Indicator had the openings of the eyes very 
small. It had sharp-pointed tubercles on the heels; the 
skin of the nestling No. 2416, already mentioned (‘Ibis/ 
1909, p. 16) also shews these tubercles. 
Two adult female specimens that were found to be just 
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