BAZA. 



Sul>family FALCONING. 

 Cren-as B./^Z.A., J/u,/,/snn. 



Baza subcristata. 



CHESTED UAWK. 



L'pii/ogini/s xubc.ristn/its, Gould, Proe. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 1-tO ; id., Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. 1., pi. 25 

 (1848). 



Ba'.a sicbcriatata, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. ')C> (1865); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 

 Vol. I., p. 357 (1.^74); vL, Hand-1. Bds., Vol. J., p. 271 nS99). 



AuuLT MALE. — (J mil-It of the head and hind-neck dark "'<!ii/-'jn y ; a sina/! occipital crest hlackish- 

 (jri-ii : bark, acapular/! ami innennnst secondaries broirn : upper iving-coverts and remainder of the 

 (juilh ihiskij-yrey, tlie tall, r irith a faint ijreenish gloaa ivith Utirkish cross-bars and tips, irliich are 

 more distinct on the under surface of the wing, where the i nterspaces are light gre.ij ; tail dark grey 

 crossed ivith a broad blackish terminal band, the basal portion, witli tlie remains of blackish cross-bars ; 

 under surface of the tnil fathers light ashij-grey, rendering the remains nf /he blackish cross-bars and 

 broad terminal band more distinct; sides of the head, throat and. fore-neck ashy-grey : remainder of 

 the under snrface didl irhite washed ivith rufoHS-biifi, and crossed with broad >cell dejined blackish- 

 grey bauds, the rafons-butf colour more pronounced on the centre of the abdomen and a narrow 

 edging immediately abore and below the blackish-grey trausrerse barrings; under tail-corerts rich 

 rufons-huff. Total length V inches, wing l-iS, tail 9, bill 1-05, tarsus I'd. 

 Adult female. ^.S'/i/ii/ru- in plumage til the mate. 



Disti'ihiition. — Northern Territory of South Australia, Oueensland, New South Wales, 

 (^t LTHOUGH nowhere common, in favourable situations the range of the Crested Hawk 

 J. \~ extends througliout a portion of Northern Australia, and the whole of the coastal 



districts of Eastern Australia as far south as 

 the Bellinger River in New South Wales. In 

 the Northern Territory of South .Australia 

 Mr. George Masters has recorded specimens 

 obtained near Port Darwin, by the late Mr. 

 Edward Spalding.' The late Mr. J. A. Thorpe 

 procured specimens at Cape York in 1867, Mr. 

 E. A. C. Olive obtained examples at Cooktown, 

 Mr. Frank Hislop noted it further south in the 

 Bloomfield River District, Messrs. E.J. Cairn 

 and Robt. Grant procured specimens near 

 Herberton and in the Bellenden Ker Range, 

 while collecting on behalf of the Trustees of 

 the Australian Museum, Mr. George Masters 

 ',/ * obtained examples at Gayndah, on the Burnett 

 River, and Mr. H. G. Barnard has found it 

 '^ breeding on many occasions in the Dawson 

 >, i. River District. In New South Wales I met 

 -^£>^ with it in the brushes of the Tweed River ; it 

 has been obtained by many collectors on the 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers, and Mr. Robt. 

 Grant obtained a specimen on the Bellinger 

 River. 



CRESTED JIAWK. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol II., p. 269 (1S78). 



