13. Baza. 49 



Subfamily FALCONINJE. 



13. BAZA. 



1. Baza subcristata. 



The Crested Hawk. 



Lepidogenys subcristatus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 140 ; id. 

 Syn. Bds. Austr., part iii, (1838) ; id. Bds. Auntr,, vol. i, pi. 25, 

 (1848) ; Pelz. Reis. Novara, Vog. p. 8 (1865). 



Baza subcristata, Gray, Gen. Bds., p. 23 (1845) ; StriclL, Orn. Syn., 

 p. 127 (1855) ; Schlec]., Mus. Pays-Bas, Milvi, p. 4 (1862) ; Gould, 

 Handbk. Bds. Aust7:, vol. i, p. 56, sp. 25 (1865) ; liamsay, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 392; Gray, Hand-list Bds., vol. i, p. 25 

 (1869); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mm., vol. i, p. 357 (1874); 

 Pamsay, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1875, p. 579 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1880, p. 

 462 ; id. List Diurn. Bds. Prey, p. 89 (1884) ; Forbes, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 1884, p. 431 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Bds., p. 1 (1888) ; 

 North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 15, pi. ii, fig. 5 (1889) ; 

 Broadb., Proc. Boy. Soc, Queenskl., vol. v, p. 15 (1889); Sharpe, 

 Index, Gould's Works, p. 30 (1893) ; Gurney, jun., Cat. Bds. 

 Prey, p. 27 (1894). 



Avicida subcristata, Lajr. Rev. Zool., 1846, p. 127 ; Bonap. Consp. Av. 

 torn, i, p. 20 (1850) ; id. Reu. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 535. 



Pernis subcristatus, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 343; id. Conlr. Orn., 1850, 

 p. 77. 



Adult. Head and neck ashy grey, darker on the crown and 

 towards the occipital crest, which is almost black ; scapulars, 

 inner secondaries, and their coverts, and the remainder of the 

 upper surface of the body brown ; the wing-coverts interscapular 

 region, tips of the outer scapulars, blackish slate ; primaries and 

 secondaries above very dark brown, becoming blackish on the 

 outer webs, the base of their inner webs and their under surface 

 light ashy grey (white in certain lights), narrowly margined with 

 white at the base ; all the quills broadly barred with black, the 

 last bar the broadest, and forming a subterminal spot at the tip, 

 which on the inner primaries and the secondaries is sometimes 

 narrowly margined with white ; bars on the basal portion of the 

 under surface obsolete — or confined to the outer webs : tail ashy 

 brown above, light ashy grey below, the basal half crossed with 

 three interrupted black bands formed by a series of spots which 

 are confined to the central part of the feathers, and not extending 

 to the margins ; the terminal hnlf of the feather is crossed at the 

 tip with a broad black band, which on the outer two feathers 

 forms a subterminal blotch, the tips of these feathers more or less 

 margined, and the outer ones broadly tipped with ashy white on 

 the under surface, the shafts blackish above, white below ; sides 



