iJ42 FALC0K1D.E. 



crossed -with broad bars of black, five in number on the latter, very 

 distinct on the under surface of both, where the interspaces are ashy- 

 white ; under surface of body creamy white, with broad longitudinal 

 streaks of dark brown on the throat and breast, narrowing towards 

 the lower breast, and absent on the under tail-coverts ; under wing- 

 coverts coloured exactly like the breast, the greater ones ashy 

 white, strongly barred with blackish ; cere bluish white ; bill nearly 

 white, tip blackish ; feet pale lemon-yellow or white ; iris orange- 

 yellow. Total length 22 inches, culmen ISo, wing 14-4, tail 11-5, 

 tarsus 2-05, middle toe 1-4. 



Adult male. Very little smaller than the female. Total length 

 19-5 inches, wing 13-8, tail 11-3, tarsus 1-9. 



Hub. The same as that of the genus. 

 a. d" ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



66. MACH^EHAMPHUS. „ 



Machjeramphus, Westerm. Bijd. tot d. Ihei'h. i. p. 29, 



pi. 12 (1848) M. aleinus. 



Striugon\-x, Chimey, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 618 M. anderssoni. 



n. 



Bill of Machcerhamphiis anderssoni. 

 Range. Malacca ; S.W. Africa, Damara Land ; Madagascar. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



Abdomen brown ; crest very long alcimis, p. 342. 



h. Abdomen white ; crest smaller anderssoni, p. 343. 



1. Machserhamphus aleinus. 



Machserhamphus aleinus, Westerm. Bijd. tot d. Dierk. i. p. 29, pi. 12 

 (1848) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. 1854, p. 535 : Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 135 

 (1855) ; Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 1(38, pi. 1. fig. 6 (1857) ; id. Mus. 

 P.-B. Femes, p. 7 (1862) ; Sha?-pe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 502. 



Adult (type of species). Everywhere black, with a chocolate- 

 brown shade ; an ill-defined spot above and below the eye white ; 

 quills and tail also black, the shafts dull white underneath ; throat 



