109 



Wing ad. 12.3, bill stouter, ciilinon 1.5 in. ; 

 above pm-pli.sh brown ; crown and crest 

 black ; throat and chest grey, former with 

 broad black central stripe ; below white, 

 banded with pale rufous ; sides of face 

 .greyish, washed with rufous. 

 260c. Baza jerdoni magnirostris (Gray), Cat. Accip. 

 B.M., Y>. 19 (1844, nom. nad.) , (Kauj)), Isis, 

 1S47, p. 343. [ex Gray, Manila.'] 

 Philippine Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Philippine 

 Is. 



260d. 



Wing ad. 11-12 in. ; culmen 1.25 in. ; above 

 darker brown ; ear-coverts dark cinereous 

 instead of grey ; chest rufous ; below banded 

 with darker rufous brown. 

 Baza jerdoni erijthrotJiorax 81iarpe, P.Z.8., 

 1873, p. 025 (June 1873). [Celebes.] 

 Rufous-ciiested Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Celebes 

 Sula Is. 



260e, 



261 



261a. 



Smaller ; wing (imni. 9) 1".8 in. ; 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. 



Baza jerdoni leucopias Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p, 

 195. [Palawan /.] 



Wing S 12.85-12.95 ; O 13.15-13.60 in. ; 

 above browai, 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 bands ; 

 breast buffy white, banded with chestnut 

 brown [blackish in oldest birds] ; thighs and 

 under wing and tail-coverts buffy rufous. 

 Baza subcristata subcristata (Gould), 8vn. 

 Bds. Austral., pt. iii., pi. 46 (1838). [New S. 

 Wales.] 

 Australian Cuckoo -Falcon . 



wingo^ 11.65-12.10 



$ 12.5-12.85 



Smaller 



in. 



Baza subcristata timorlaoensis Me^'cr, Abhandl 



Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, 18[]2-3. No. 3, p 



5 (1893). [Timorlaiit.] 



Tenimber Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Palawan 



Island 



(Philippines). 



Australia 



(N.S. Wales, 

 Queensland) 

 S.E. New 

 Guinea. 



Tenimber 

 Island. 



