Ill 



barred with light rnsty nifons ; under tail- 

 coverts biiffy riifoii.s. 



261g. Baza svbcrisfata rufa Schl., Vog. Ned. Ind. 

 Valkvog., pp. 41 , 78 (1866). [HaJwahera, etc .] 

 Rufous Cuckoo -Falcon. 



N. Molucca 

 Islands 

 (Halmahera, 

 Morotai , 

 Batchian, 

 Ternate, etc.). 



Gen. LXXVIII. HENICOPERNIS Gra3r (1859). 



Wings falling much short of end of tail ; tail 

 long, more than five timcF length of tarsus ; 

 slightlj crested. 



very 

 head 



Size large ; wing O 17.30 ; tail 1 1 .^ in. ; ^ wing 

 14.20-14. .50 in. ; above ashy brown, broadly 

 barred with black, exce]it on lower back and 

 rump ; head and hind neck streaked with 

 blackish and much varied with white ; tail 

 with 5 broad black bands ; be-low creamy 

 white, with broad streaks of dark brown on 

 throat and breast, narrowing below ; cere 

 and bill bluish white, tip of latter blackish ; 

 feet yellowish white ; iris orange yellow. 

 2G2. Henicopernis longicauda lorujicauda (Garnot), 

 Voy. Coq., i., p. 588, pi. 10 (1826). [Dore^J, 

 Dutch New Guinea, type in Paris Mus.] 

 Long-tailed Kite. 



Size similar ; wing (^ 14.-14.20 in. ; nuich 

 darker ; wing-coverts and upper scapiilars 

 dark brown instead of banded with light and 

 dark brown ; dark bands broader and light 

 bands narrower on wings ; tail with 4 dark 

 bands ; below blackish brown with pale 

 edgings. 

 262a. Henicopernis lo7igicauda ivfuscata Gurney, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 128. [Blanche Bay, New 

 Britain, co-type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Gurney 's Long-tailed Kite. 



New Guinea, 

 Salawati, 

 Misori I., 

 Waigiou, 

 Aru Is. 



New Britain. 



Gen. LXXIX. IMACH.^RHAMPHUS Westerm. (1851). 



Head strongly crested ; bill weak and slightly keeled; 

 loral plumes produced above half the nostril. 



