110 



261b. 



261c. 



261 d 



261( 



Scarcely smaller; wing ^ 11.30-11.65; $ 

 11.85-12.35 in. ; fore neck and chest very 

 pale grey ; bands on imder parts narrower, 

 as also those on under surface of quills. 

 Baza subcristata jmllida Stresemann, Nov, 

 ZooL, XX., p. 307 (1913). [(^ Tiial, Kei Is., 

 Kiihn coll., Tring Mus.] 



Wing J 11.25-11.90, $ 11.25-12.10 in. ; head, 

 neck all round, interscapulary region and 

 chest ashy grey ; crest blackish ; scapulars 

 and inner secondaiies chocolate brown ; 

 breast and flanks buffy white, with blackish 

 brown crossbars ; vent, under tail-coverts 

 and under wing-coverts orange buff. 

 Baza subcristata reinwardti (Mlill. & Schl.), 

 Naturl. Versch., Av., p. 35, tab. 5 (1843). 

 [" Celebes, Borneo," errore — type loc. subst. 

 Stresemann : Amhoina.] 

 Reirwardt's Cuckoo -Falcon. 



[Said to be larger.] 



Baza subcristata megala Stresem., Nov. Zool., 

 AX., p. 307 (1915). [Fergusson I., D'Entre- 

 casteaux Archij).] 



Kei and 

 Goram Is. 



Moluccas 

 (Ceram, 

 Amboina, 

 Bouru, 

 Aru Is. 

 Misol) ; 

 New Guinea, 



Fergusson I.* 



Size almost the same ; under wing-coverts 



paler isa belli ne colour. 



Baza subcristata gurneyi Ramsay, Jnl. Linn. Solomon 



Soc. Zool., xvi., p. 130 (1881). {Solomon Is.'] Islands. 



Solomon Islands Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Slightly larger ; wing,^ 12.25-12.35 ; $ 12.50- 

 13.05 in. 

 261f . Baza subcristata bismarcki Sharpe, in Gould's 

 Eds. New Guinea, i., pi. 4 (1888). [Bis- 

 marck A r chip.] 

 Bismarck's Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Wing ad. 12.50 in. ; hind neck much darker 

 grey ; throat and chest light ashy grey, but 

 chest with broad tips of rusty rufous, obscur- 

 ing the grey ; below closely and broadly 



New Ireland, 

 New Guinea, 

 Duke of 

 York I. & 

 New 

 Hanover. 



* Said to be a synonym (c/. Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, Suppl., ii., p. 270, 1915), 

 and B. s. stenozona Gray, from Aru Is., seems non-separable. 



