270e. 
271. 
27a. 
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. 
Aviceda jerdoni leucopais (Sharpe). Ibis, 
1888, p. 195. [Palawan I., type in Brit. 
Mus. | 
Smaller ; wing (imm. 9) 273 mm. ; below 
white without median black line on throat ; 
breast and abdomen washed with creamy 
buff, sides and flanks with slight spots of 
pale tawny buff. 
Aviceda subcristata subcristata (Gould), Syn. 
Bds. Austral., pt. ili., pl. 46 (1838). [New 
S. Wales.] 
Australian Cuckoo-Falcon. 
Wing ¢ 325-328, 2 334-345 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 rutous. 
Aviceda subcristata timorlaoensis (Meyer), 
Abhandl. Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, 1892-3. 
No. 3, p. 5 (1893).  [Limorlaut.] 
Tenimber Cuckoo-Falcon. 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 295-306, ¢ 316-325 mm. 
Philippine Is. 
(Palawan, 
Romblon and 
Lemur). 
Australia 
(N.S. Wales, 
Queensland). 
Tenimber 
Island. 
