356 PALCONIB^. 



5. Baza magnirostris. (Plate X. fig. 1.) 



Baza magnirostris, Gray, Cat. Aecipitr. Brit. Mus. p. 19 (1844) ; 



Strickl. Orn. Sijn. p. 127 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 25 



(1869). 

 Aviceda magnirostiis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 20 (1850), et Rev. et Mag. de 



Zool. 1854, p. 53o. 

 Pemis madagascariensis, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 77. 



Nearly adult. Crown of the head and long occipital crest black ; 

 feathers over the eye, as well as the sides and back of the neck, 

 tawny rufous, the latter spotted with black ; the sides of the face 

 greyish, washed with rufous ; upper surface of body brown, with a 

 gloss of purplish brown, some of the feathers also shaded with 

 greenish in certain lights ; quills brown, tipped with whitish, barred 

 with purplish brown, the secondaries very much paler brown, against 

 which the bands of darker brown contrast strongly, especially the 

 subterminal one, which has a distinct purplish gloss ; under surface 

 of quills greyish white, with dark brown bands, pure white near the 

 base ; tail browu, tipped with whity brown, and crossed by three 

 bands of dark purplish brown, the subterminal one being very broad, 

 and glossed with greenish ; under surface of tail greyish white, like 

 that of the wings, the subterminal band distinctly marked, the basal 

 ones very faintly, excepting on the outermost feathers, which have a 

 patch of dark brown on the outer web, extending on to the inner one 

 also ; under surface of the body whitish, broadly streaked on the sides 

 of the throat and the chest, banded on the breast, and spotted on the 

 under tail-coverts with pale rufous, darker and more inclining to 

 rufous brown on the flanks and sides of the body and axillary 

 plumes ; down the centre of the throat, extending to the fore neck, 

 a broad black streak ; under wing-coverts bufiy white, spotted with 

 pale rufous, the lower ones barred with this colour ; biU horn-black, 

 browner on lower mandible ; feet yellow. Total length 17'5 inches, 

 culmen 1-5, wing 12-3, tail 8-1, tarsus 1-5. 



Another specimen in the national collection differs from the fore- 

 going in not having so stout a bill, in the sides of the face being 

 more conspicuously grey, this shade also extending over the throat 

 and breast, the former of which is narrowly streaked with greyish 

 down the centre ; the crown of the head is blackish, the feathers 

 of the forehead being edged with rufous ; the sides and hind part 

 of the neck similarly marked, producing a striped appearance ; 

 occipital crest black, with a narrow white tip to one or two of the 

 feathers ; the bands on the breast very broad and pale rufous. 

 Total length 15-3 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 11-5, tail 7'5, tarsus 

 1-5, This would apparently be the adult male, and the other 

 perhaps a female not quite adult. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 



a. S ad. st. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. Type 



of species. 



b. $ juv. St. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C] 



