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Like B. c. verreauxi but with a brown hood ; 

 under wing-coverts paler red brown ; bands 

 of under parts lighter. 



*269c. Aviceda cuculoides verreauxi Lafr., Rev. 

 Zool., 1846, p. 130. [Near Port Natal, type 

 in M.C.Z., Harvard.] 

 Verreaux's Cuckoo- Falcon. 



Slightly larger ; wing <S 322 mm. ; above 

 rather dark ashy grey shaded with brown ; 

 crown and crest blacker ; upper tail- 

 coverts ashy grey with brown tips ; chest 

 and throat grey ; below barred with rufous 

 brown and white ; under wing- coverts 

 barred with pale rufous and fulvous ; 

 $ browner above and more strongly barred 

 below. 



S.E. Africa 

 (Natal to 

 Zambesi and 

 Nyasaland ; 

 also Southern 

 Cape Colony.) 



270. Aviceda jerdoni jerdoni (Blyth), Jnl. As. 

 Soc. Beng., xi., p. 464 (1842). [Malacca, 

 type in Mus. As. Soc. Beng.] 

 Jerdon's Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Wing (? 323, ? 332 mm. ; culmen 35 mm. ; 

 crown and nape pale fulvous, with blackish 

 central streaks ; nape more tinged with 

 rufous ; crest long, black tipped with white; 

 throat white with distinct central streak of 

 black ; foreneck and chest streaked with 

 pale rufous ; below white, with broad bands 

 of pale rufous ; oldest birds very much 

 darker above and below, the bars below 

 rufous brown, age apparently accounting 

 for the hght and dark forms of this species. 



E. Himalayas 

 (Sikkim) ; 

 Burmese 

 countries ; 

 Malay Pen., 

 Sumatra. 



270a. Aviceda jerdoni ceylonensis (Legge), Stray Ceylon ; 



Feath., iv., p. 247 (1876). [Near Kandy, S. India 



Ceylon.] (Wynaad cas.). 

 Ceylon Cuckoo- Falcon. 



