178 



" Resembling P. c. celebensis, but with a 

 long crest composed of one or two elongated 

 feathers, usually measuring about 64 mm. 

 and coloured black with white bases ; as a 

 rule, not so richly coloured . . . the trans- 

 verse banding on belly and under tail- 

 coverts brown and white, pot black and 

 white, and black on under wing-coverts 

 also paler." 



279b. Pernis celebensis tweeddalii Hume, Stray Malay Penin., 

 Feathers, ix., p. 446 (1880). [Singapore.] Sumatra, Siam. 

 Malayan Pern. 



Wing S 395, $ 420 mm. ; without rufous on 

 head and neck and with less rufous on 

 chest ; intermediate in general characters 

 between celebetisis and cristuius. 



