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APPENDIX K. 



On the Birds of the Genus Baza inhabiting the Solomon 

 Islands and the New Britain Group. 



Mr. E, P. Ramsay lias pointed out tliat the Baza inliabiting 

 the Solomon Islauds should be regarded as subspecifically 

 distinct from the nearly allied and widely distributed B. rein- 

 ivardti; and he has done me the honour of attaching my 

 name to this new subspecies. 



In the ' Journal of the Linnean Society^ (Zoology), vol. xvi. 

 p. 130, Mr, Ramsay remarks that B. gurneyi differs from the 

 typical B. reinwardti " in having a paler head and neck, in 

 having an almost pure white under surface, and in the bars 

 being narrower, fewer, and of a darker tint.'^ He also 

 mentions that the under wing-coverts are white_, except "a 

 faint tinge of buff on the median under-coverts/' in which 

 respect they differ from the decidedly buff-coloured under- 

 cover ts of the typical B. reinwardti. 



I have only examined one specimen of B. gurneyi, an adult 

 male, collected on Russell Island, in the Solomon Group, 

 by Lieut. Richards, R.N., and kindly lent me by Canon 

 Tristram. This specimen exhibits the peculiarities above 

 referred to ; the pale grey tint of the nuchal and inter- 

 scapular feathers reaches lower down on the back than is 

 usual in the typical B. reinwardti, though in one of the 

 specimens of the latter preserved in the Norwich Museum 

 (a bird from Dorey, not fully adult) it is equally extended ; 

 the cross bars on the under surface are decidedly darker in 

 the Russell Island specimen than in any example that has 

 come under my notice of B. reiiiivardti , though I have seen 

 some of the latter with the bars quite as narrow and as few 



