107 



2r)8. 



Larger ; -wing ^ 12.5, tail 8 in. ; 9 wing 13, 

 tail 9 in. ; general colour brown, darker on 

 mantle, most of the feathers with paler 

 margins, those of head with nifoiis margins 

 and white bases ; crest dark broAvn : pri- 

 maries ashy brown, banded M'itJi darker 

 broAvn ; tail ash}'' grey with 3 biinds of dark 

 browni ; throat with median and moustachial 

 blackish stripes ; Ik'Iow white, upper breast 

 and sides longitiidnvxllj' marked with rufous 

 bro\ni, lower flanks almost uniform. 



Baza madagascariensis (Smith), 8. .Air. Q. Madagascar, 

 Jnl., ii., p. 285 (1835). [Madagascar.] 

 Madagascar Cuckoo-Falcon . 



259. 



Smaller; \v\ng ad. ll.G in.; above ashy 

 brown ; head, crest and interscapulary region 

 darker, inclining to slaty black ; quills brown 

 above and ashy white below, barred with 

 dark bro^ai on inner webs, the subterminal 

 band broad ; upper tail-coverts tipped and 

 barred with white ; tail ashy grey, tij^ped 

 with white, with broad subterminal and 3 

 other bands of black ; throat and chest clear 

 grey ; below buffy white, barred with taAATiy 

 rufous ; under wing-coverts uniform tawny 

 rufous. 



Baza cuculoides cucidoides (Swains.), Bds. 

 W. Africa, i., p. 104, pi. 1 (1837). [" W. 

 Africa''^ Senegal], tj'^e in Camb. Mus.] 

 W. African Cuckoo-Falcon. 



W. Africa 

 (Senegal to 

 Gold Coast). 



259a. 



259b. 



Much darker above, uniform slaty black ; 

 throat and chest pale gi'ey, the barrings 

 below confined to upper breast and of a 

 much darlvcr brown colour ; belly, flanks, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts pure white, 

 with little trace of buff ; under wing-coverts 

 uniform rusty rufous. 



Baza cuculoides batesi, subsp. nov. [(^ River 

 Ja, Cameroon, coll. G. L. Bates, Feb. 5, 

 1907. Brit. Mus. Fveg., No. 1911. 5.31.60.] 



[Not seen.] 

 Baza cuculoides 



W. Africa 

 (Cameroon 

 to Aruwhimi 

 R., Upper 

 Congo). 



emini Reichenow, J.f.O., Equatorial 



1894, p. 163. [Albert Nyanza.] 



Africa . 



