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Show 1888.] FROM E Q U A T O R I A L AFRICA. 43 of the neck, middle of the rump, upper tail-coverts, some of the lesser wing-coverts, all of the median and greater coverts and the quills broadly tipped with huffish white ; forehead, nape, and sides of the head almost white ; the latter washed on the lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts with dusky grey. Tail with some five or six obsoletely paler bands, the base of the one near the end well defined by triangular white marks on the sides of the feathers, the other bands only indicated by smaller white marks confined to their inner webs, base of the tail white. Underparts whitish buff shaded with rufous buff on the sides of the body, thighs, and under tail-coverts, the latter have two broad black bars across them; under surface of the wing-coverts rufous buff; quills dusky brown, fading into white towards the bases of their inner webs, all the quills broadly tipped with white. Total length 15'2 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 9, tail 8*3, tarsus 1. There is a nestling of this species in the British Museum labelled " W . Africa, DuChaillu," from which I conclude that it is a Central- African species occasionally extending to the coast both in the east and west. 137. INDICATOR MAJOR, Steph. Indicator major, Sharpe, in Dawson Rowley's Orn. Miscell. i. p. 204 ; Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. 1886, p. 311. No. 131. 2- Wadelai, Sept. 15, 1885. Iris umber-brown ; bare skin on head leaden grey ; bill black ; legs dusky. 138. INDICATOR EMINI, sp. n. (Plate III.) No. 675. 6*. Wadelai, June 23, 1883. Bill slight. Upper parts uniform dusky brown, very slightly shaded with olive on the crown and back of the neck, slightly more so with deep yellow on the back and scapulars, increasing in amount of yellow on the rump, where a few feathers show white ends ; wings dark brown ; the coverts shading into olive-yellow on their edges, the quills edged with deep yellow ; tail, four centre feathers entirely brown, remainder white, with the base only of the next pair to the four centre feathers dusky brown. Underparts, including the under tail-coverts, ashy brown, fading into white on the centre and sides of the abdomen behind the thighs. Total length 4'6 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 2-6, tail 2-1, tarsus 0 5. In its slight bill this species approaches nearest to /. major, and by that character alone it may be readily distinguished from all the other known species of Honey-Guides. It is very distinct from any other member of the genus, and I am pleased to be able to name such a striking species after its celebrated discoverer. 139. MUSOPHAGA ROSS.E, Gould. Musophaga rossce, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. 1884, p. 433; Schalow, J. f. O. 1886, p. 14. No. 12. 2- Tingasi, Aug. 10, 1883. |
