171 



Wing ad. 280-305, culmen 32 mm. ; above 

 darker brown ; ear-coverts dark cinereous 

 instead of grey ; chest rufous ; below 

 banded with darker rufous brown. 



270e. Aviceda jerdoni leucopais (Sharpe). Ibis, 

 1888, p. 195. [Palawan I., type in Brit. 



Mus.] 



Smaller ; wing (imm. ?) 273 mm. ; below 

 white without median black line on throat ; 

 breast and abdomen washed with creamy 

 buff, sides and flanks with sHght spots of 

 pale tawny buff. 



Philippine Is. 

 (Palawan, 

 Romblon and 

 Lemur). 



271. Aviceda subcristata subcfistata (Gould) , Syn. Australia 



Bds. Austral., pt. iii., pi. 46 (1838). [New (N.S. Wales, 



S. Wales.] Queensland). 

 Australian Cuckoo- Falcon. 



Wing cJ 325-328, $ 334-345 mm. ; above 

 brown, slaty black on wings ; head, neck, 

 and chest ashy grey ; with small occipital 

 crest black ; tail ashy brown, with broad 

 subterminal and 3 other black obsolete 

 basal bands ; breast buffy white, banded 

 with chestnut brown [blackish in oldest 

 birds] ; thighs and under wing and tail- 

 coverts buffy rufous. 



271a. Aviceda subcristata timorlaoensis (Meyer), Tenimber 

 Abhandl. Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, 1892-3. Island. 

 No. 3, p. 5 (1893). [TimorlauL] 

 Tenimber Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Smaller ; wing c? 295-306, ? 316-325 mm. 



