360 



FALCONIDJi:. 



10. Saza mfa. 



Baza reinwardtii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 343. 



Baza rufa, Schl. Tog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pp. 41, 78, pi. 27. fig. 4, 



pi. 28. figs. 1-3 (1866) ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 8 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 25 (1869). 



Adult. Head all round, neck, and throat clear slaty grey, lighter 

 on the forehead, darker on the hind head and crest, which incKne 

 to blackish ; interscapulary region and ■wing-coverts deep slaty 

 black, Tvith a slight greenish gloss ; scapulars and some of the inner 

 secondaries deep chocolate-brown ; upper tail-coverts brownish, the 

 lower ones slaty black ; quills deep slaty brown above, pale whitish 

 slaty below, banded on both surfaces with black ; tail clearer slaty 

 grey, with three bands of black, the subterminal one exceedingly 

 broad and occupying nearly a quarter of the tail, under surface 

 whitish, the bands faintly indicated and reduced on the outer 

 feathers to a black patch on the outer web just extending on to 

 the inner one ; chest rufous, slightly washed with greyish ; rest of 

 under surface bright rufous, almost chestnut, with faintly indicated 

 cross bars of fulvous, some of the intermediate chestnut bars having 

 also a blackish shade ; thighs and under tail-coverts deep rufous, 

 unbarred ; under wing-coverts chestnut, the axillai'ies paler and 

 barred with dusky black ; cere lead-colour ; bill black, lead- colour 

 at base ; feet bluish white ; iris yellow. Total length 17 inches, 

 culmen 1*2, wing 12-3, tail 7'8, tarsus 1'55. 



Hah. Batchian, Gilolo, Ternate, Tidore, Morty. 



a. Ad. st. Gilolo. Purchased. 



h, c. S ad. sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



d. 5juv.sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



69. HARPAGUS. rj^ 



Harpagus, Vigors, Zool. Jmirn. i. p. 338 (1824) H. diodon. 



Bidens, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 15 (1824) H. bidentatus. 



Diodon, Less. Traite, p. 95 (1831) H. bidentatus. 



Diplodon, Nitzsch, Pteryl p. 93 (1840) H. bidentatus. 



Bill and foot of Harpagus diodo7i. 

 Range. Central America ; Guiana ; Amazonia ; Brazil ; Peru. 



