Ill 



barred with light riisty rufous ; under tail- 

 coverts buflFy rufous. 



2()lg. Baza svbcrislata rufa 8chl., Vog. Ned. Ind. 

 Valkvog., pp. 41, 78 (ISfiO). [Halmahera, etc.] 

 Rufous Cue koo -Falcon . 



N. IMohicca 

 Islands 

 (Hahuahera, 

 Moiotai , 

 Batehian, 

 Ternate, etc.). 



Gen. LXXVIII. HENICOPERNIS Gray (1859). 



Wings falling nnich short of end of tail ; tail very 

 long, more than five times length of tarsus ; head 

 slightl} crested. 



Size large ; wing $ 17.30 ; tail 1 1 .5 in. ; ^ wing 

 14.20-14.50 in. ; above ashy broAMi, broadly 

 barred with black, exce]it on lower back and 

 rum]i ; iiead and hind neck streaked with 

 blackish and nnieh varied with Avhite ; tail 

 with 5 broad black Iwinds : below creamy 

 white, with broad streaks of dark brown on 

 throat and breast, narrowing beloM' ; cere 

 and bill bluish white, tip of latter blackish ; 

 feet yelloA\nsh white ; iris orange j'cllow. 

 Henicopernis longicaiida longicavda (Garnot), 

 Voy. Coq., i., p. 588, pi. 10 (1826). [Dorey, 

 Dutch New Guinea, type in Paris IMus.] 

 Long-tailed Kite. 



262. 



262a 



Size similar ; wing o 14.-14.20 in. ; much 

 darker ; wing-coverts and upper scapulars 

 dark brown instead of banded with light and 

 dark broAvn ; dark bands broader and light 

 bands narrower on Avings ; tail with 4 dark 

 bands ; below blackish brown witli pale 

 edgings. 



He7iicopernis longicauda infuscata Gurney, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 128. [Blanche Bay, New 

 Britain, co-type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Gurney 's Long-tailed Kite. 



New Guinea, 

 Salawati, 

 Misori I., 

 Waigiou, 

 Aru Is. 



New Britain. 



Gen. LXXIX. MACH.^RHAMPHUS Westerm. (1851 



Head strongly crested ; bill weak and slightly keeled; 

 loral plumes j)roduced above half the nostril. 



