174 



head and hind neck streaked with blackish 

 and much varied with white ; tail with 5 

 broad black bands ; below creamy white, 

 with broad streaks of dark brown on throat 

 and breast, narrowing below ; cere and bill 

 bluish white, tip of latter blackish. 



273. Henicopernis infuscata Gurney, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 128. [Blanche Bay, New Britain, type 

 in Mus. Phil. Acad., co-type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Gurney 's Long-tailed Kite. 



Wing S 341-355, tail 250 mm. ; much 

 darker ; wing-coverts and upper scapulars 

 dark brown instead of banded with light 

 and dark brown ; secondaries and prima- 

 ries with 3 pale bands ; tail with 4 blackish 

 brown bands ; below blackish brown with 

 pale edgings, the belly bufhsh, with dark 

 shaft stripes. 



New Britain. 



Gen. LXXXVII. MACHiERHAMPHUS Westerm. 

 Type by monotypy M. alci7ius Westerm. 



Head strongly crested ; bill weak and slightly 

 keeled ; loral plumes produced above half the 

 nostril. Size moderate (length 18.5 in.). 



;i85i). 



274. MachcBrhamphus alcinus Westerm., Bijdr. 

 tot te Dierk., i., pt. 2, p. 29, pi. 12 (1851). 

 [Malacca, type in Leyd. Mus.] 

 Malacca Pern. 



Wing 360, tail 198 mm. ; black, with a 

 chocolate brown shade ; a well-delined 

 spot above and below eye white ; throat 

 and centre of chest white ; chin and a 

 broad streak down throat, as well as sides 

 of latter, and a few spots on lower parts 

 black. 



S. Tenasserim, 

 Malay Penin., 

 Sumatra, 

 Borneo, 

 New Guinea. 



