358 FALCONIB^. 



B. Austr. i. p. 56 (1865) ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 392 ; Gray, 



Hand-/. B. i. p. 25 (1869). 

 Avicida subcristata, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 127 ; Bp. Cotisp. i. 



p. 20 (1850) ; id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1864, p. 535. 

 Pernis subcristatus, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 343, et Contr. Orn. 1850, 



p. 77. 



Adult. Head and neck ashy grey, with a small occipital crest of 

 black feathers ; rest of upper surface brown, the wing- coverts and 

 interscapulary region greyish black ; quills dark brown, shaded 

 externally with ashy grey, broadly barred with black above and 

 with greyish white underneath, inner secondaries browner like the 

 back ; tail ashy brown, with four broad black bars, the subterminal 

 one being especially broad, under surface greyish white as in the 

 wing, with broad corresponding bars of black ; forehead, lores, and 

 sides of the face clearer cinereous than the head, as also the throat 

 and chest, the latter of which is washed with rufous ; breast banded 

 alternately with huffy white and chestnut-brown ; thighs and under 

 wing- and tail-coverts huffy rufous ; bill bluish horn-colour ; feet 

 yellowish. Total length 17 inches, culmen 1"2, wing 13-5, tail 9, 

 tarsus 1-45. 



Young. Above paler brown than in the adult, with narrow mar- 

 gins of ochraceous buff to the dorsal feathers and wing-coverts, 

 becoming broader and more white on the inner secondaries ; crown 

 dark brown, as also the occipital crest, the white bases to the 

 feathers rather conspicuous ; forehead and sides of the face dusky 

 cinereous, the former inclining to whitish ; throat whitish ; fore 

 neck and chest buff, with a rufous tinge, which extends on to the 

 sides and hinder part of the neck ; breast huffy white, barred with 

 rufous brown, much more narrowly than in the old bird ; thighs 

 and under wing- and tail-coverts rich buff, the former crossed near 

 the base with a few narrow bars of rufous brown. 



There is some confusion about the Buteo cristaius of Vieillot. 

 Pucheran, in his excellent review on the types of this naturalist 

 (Rev. Zool. 1850, p. 84), says that the species so called in the 

 ' Encyclopedic ' is Baza lophotes ; and in that he is doubtless right. 

 He also mentions that the bird is not mentioned in the ' Nouveau 

 Dictionnaire ; ' but, as Strickland points out, there is a Buteo cristatus 

 from New Holland described in this work (vol. iv. p. 481), and he 

 refers Vieillot's bird to Baza subcristata, of which it would be an 

 older title. 1 cannot trace any likeness to this species, and conse- 

 quently omit it from my list of synonyms. 

 Hab. N. Australia. 



a. Ad. St. Australia. Purchased. 



b. Juv. st. Australia. Purchased. 



9. Baza reinwardti. 



Lophotes reinwardti, Midi. Sf Schl. Nuturl. Versch. Av. p. 35, tab. 5 



(18.39-44). 

 Lophaster leraoni, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. pt. 1, p. 464 (1842), et xv. 



p. 4 (1846). 



