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174. Iynx torquilla. 
lynx torquilla Linn. ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. 
p. 560 (1890) ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 74 (Somaliland). 
a. <$ . Ganti, Abyssinia, 28 March, 1899. (No. 458.) 
Iris light hazel ; bill dark; legs light brown. 
175. Iynx ^quatorialis. 
lynx eequatorialis Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 93, pi. 37 (1845); 
Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 567 (1890). 
This handsome species of Wryneck has long been a desi¬ 
deratum to the British Museum Collection. 
a. $ . Burka, Abyssinia, 6 January, 1899. (No. 127.) 
b. $ . Baroma, „ 10 January, 1899. (No. 149.) 
a. Iris light hazel; bill dark ; legs light brown. 
b. Iris light hazel ; bill and legs dark brown. 
[A widely-distributed bird, though it was seldom that more 
than one pair were seen in a day.—L.] 
176. Indicator lovati. 
Indicator lovati Grant, Bull. B. O. C. vol. x. p. xxxix 
(1900). 
a. $ . Gelongol, Abyssinia, 13 March, 1899. (No. 406.) 
[Type of the species .] 
Adult female. Resembles I. minor Stepli. in the colour of 
the upper parts, wings, and tail, but differs from that species 
in having the heavy black moustachial streaks confluent on 
the chin ; the throat dull grey, with a slight greenish tinge, 
uniform in colour with the breast, and the longer flank- 
feathers dark smoky brown, edged with white on the sides. 
From /. conirostris (Cass.), which it approaches in the latter 
characters, it may be at once distinguished by the greyish- 
brown colour of the head and neck and the much duller 
yellow colouring of the back and wing-coverts. Iris brown; 
bill and legs black. Total length about 6*0 inches, culmen 
0*5, wing 3 5, tail .2*25, tarsus 0*55. 
[This Honey-guide was shot at daybreak perched on the 
outside of a rotten tree ; just on a level with its head was a 
small orifice into which it darted its bill at intervals of 
perhaps two seconds. I afterwards saw 7 one of the same 
