68. BAZA. 357 



6. Baza erythrothorax. (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Baza magnirostris, Schl. Vog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pi. 28. figs. 4, 5 



(1866) ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 18. 

 Baza erythrothorax, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 62-5 (June). 

 Baza celebensis, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Revue Accipitr. p. lc»5 (1873, July). 



This species difiers from the true B. macpiirostris of the Philip- 

 pines in its much larger size, dark brown colour, black head, and 

 dark cinereous ear-coverts, in wanting the grey on the chest, and in 

 the dark rufous brown of the under surface. This latter colour is 

 especially distinct on the chest, the sides of the body and flanks 

 having a few white cross bars. Total length IT'S iuches, culmen 

 1-25, wing 11-5, tail 8, tarsus 1-65, 



Mr. Wallace (/. c.) gives the follo^dng note on the soft parts : — 

 " Bill lead-colour, black above ; feet white ; iris yellow." 



Hah. Celebes. 



7. Baza sumatrensis. (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 



Avicida sumatrensis, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 210. 

 Baza sumatrensis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 2 (1849) ; Wall. Ibis, 

 1868, p. 18; Gray, Hatid-l. B. i. p. 25 (1869). 



Young female. Head and hind neck creamy buff, washed with 

 tawny rufous, the feathers on hinder part of crown dark brown in 

 the centre ; occipital crest very long, black, with cream-coloured 

 tip ; back brown, with fulvous edgings, the scapulars and seconda- 

 ries further margined with white ; quills ashy brown, barred with 

 darker brown, the tail similarly coloured, narrowly tipped with 

 white, the feathers washed externally with rufous near the base ; 

 the bars on the tail four in number, one being concealed, the under 

 surface of both wings and tail paler and more ashy white ; entire 

 sides of face, throat, and underparts creamy buflP, washed with pale 

 tawny rufous, the breast and sides of body broadly barred with the 

 latter colour ; under wing-coverts creamy buff ; bill black, pale at 

 base beneath ; feet yeUowith white ; iris yellow. Total length 

 20-5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 12-75, tail 9-6, tarsus 1-6. 



Hah. Sumatra. 



a. 5 vix ad- sk. Sumatra, A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



8. Baza suhcristata. 



Lepidogenys subcristatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 140; id. Syn. B. 



Aiistr. part iii. (1838) ; id. B. Austr. fol. i. pi. 25 (1848) f Pelz. 



Reis. Xovara, Viir/. p. 8 (1865). 

 Baza suhcristata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 23 (1845) ; StricH. Oni. Si/n 



p. 127 (1855) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Milvi, p. 4 (1862) ; GouM, Handb. 



