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, New Britain. 
p. 128. [Blanche Bay, New Britain, type 
in Mus. Phil. Acad., co-type in Brit. Mus. ] 
Gurney’s Long-tailed Kite. 
Wing 3 341-355, 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 buffish, with dark 
shaft stripes. 
Gen. LXXXVII. MACHASRHAMPHUS Westerm. (1851). 
Type by monotypy M. alcinus Westerm. 
Head strongly crested; bill weak and slightly 
keeled ; loral plumes produced above half the 
nostril. Size moderate (length 18.5 in.). 
274. Macherhamphus alcinus Westerm., Bijdr. S. Tenasserim, 
tot te Dierk., i., pt. 2, p. 29, pl. 12 (1851). Malay Penin., 
(Malacca, type in Leyd. Mus. ] Sumatra, 
Malacca Pern. Borneo, 
New Guinea. 
Wing 360, tail 198 mm.; black, with a 
chocolate brown shade; a _ well-defined 
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. 
