236 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Cebu (Bourns € Worcester) ; Luzon (Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester) ; Min- 
danao (Everett, Celestino, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (McGregor); Palawan ( White- 
head, Platen) ; Romblon Ce ae be (Whitehead) ; Sibuyan (Bourns € 
Worcester) ; Sulu (Platen, Bourns & rcester) ; Tablas (Celestino). Indian and 
Malay Peninsulas, Indo-Chinese countries, Ceylon, Greater Sunda Islands. 
Adult.—Upper parts brown, many of the feathers white basally; top 
of head, neck, and sides of neck light brown with heavy black shaft-lines ; 
long crest-feathers black ; scale-like feathers of lores and side of head ashy 
gray; chin, throat, and breast white with black shaft-lines and many 
feathers with long wide terminal spots of black or dark brown on the 
throat, forming a median and two lateral stripes; abdomen, thighs, and 
under tail-coverts light brown, barred with white; under surface of 
primaries and secondaries light gray, banded with dark brown, the basal 
bars broken; axillars and wing-lining tawny-brown, the latter mottled 
with white; tail from above light brown, with five or six wide bars of 
dark brown; from below the tail is hight gray, crossed by dark brown 
bars. Bill black, its base bluish; iris bright yellow; legs dull yellow; 
nails black. A male from Mindoro is 570 in length; wing, 390; tail, 
285; culmen from base, 33; tarsus, 45; middle toe with claw, 58. 
A breeding female, taken in Mindoro, February 19, 1905, is 610 in 
length; wing, 395; tail, 290; culmen from base, 36; tarsus, 44. 
Genus BAZA Hodgson, 1836. 
Bill stout, culmen well curved; cutting edge with two teeth, in young 
birds there is often a single tooth; cere small; nostrils narrow, slightly 
oblique; crest long and narrow; wing moderate, third or fourth quill 
longest; tail square; tarsus short, feathered in front for half its length, 
naked part reticulate. The key is based on the plumage of the young 
females; the adult of lewcopais is unknown. 
Species. 
a. Breast banded with pale rufous; a black streak down center of throat. 
magnirostris (p. 236) 
a. Breast not banded; no black streak on throat; entire under parts pure white. 
leucopais (p. 237) 
194. BAZA MAGNIROSTRIS Gray. 
LARGE-BILLED BAZA. 
Baza magnirostris GRAY, Cat. Acciptr. Brit. Mus. (1844), 19; Swarr, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 356, pl. 10, fig. 1; Hand-List (1899), 1, 
271; McGrecor and WorcrEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 44. 
Luzon (Cuming) ; Mindanao (Platen, Goodfellow). 
“Nearly adult female-—Crown and long occipital crest black; feathers 
over eye, as well as the sides and back of the neck tawny rufous, the 
latter spotted with black; sides of face grayish washed with rufous; upper 
surface of body brown, with a gloss of purplish brown, some of the 
