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Wing ad. (a v.) 16.5 in. ; cro^vn and sides of 

 head ashy grey ; general colour chocolate 

 brown ; tail with broad terminal black band 

 and another narrower one nearer base, the 

 wide intersj)ace and basal band ashy bro^vn ; 

 below with distinct black shaft -stripes. 

 267a. Pernis cristams ruficollis Less., Traite, p. 76 

 (1831) ; Des Murs, Icon., pi. 14. [Bengal, 

 type in Paris Mus.] [= P. c. ellioti.] 

 Indian Crested Pern. 



Smaller ; length ad. 21.5 ; wing 14.7 ; tail 

 10.5 in. ; above chocolate brown, the head 

 blackish ; feathers of hind neck margined with 

 rufous ; lores and feathers round eye grey ; 

 throat white, with distinct black shaft -stripes, 

 and black moustachial and central streaks ; 

 chest tawny rufous, with broad central streaks 

 of black ; below white, barred with blackish 

 brown ; tail brown with 5 bars of darker 

 brown and remains of other bars on the inter- 

 spaces, the tip whitish. 

 268. Pernis celebeiisis celebensis Waiden, Tr. Z. S., 

 viii., p. Ill (1872) [Celebes, type in Br, 

 Mus.] 

 Celebes Pern. 



" Resembling P. c. celebensis, but Avith a long 

 crest composed of one or two elongated 

 feathers, usually measuring about 2.5 in. and 

 coloured black \\dth white bases ; as a rule, 

 not so richly coloured . . . the transverse 

 banding on belly and under tail-coverts brown 

 and white, not black and white, and black on 

 under wing -coverts also paler.'" 

 268a. Pernis celebensis steerei W. Sclat., Bull. B.O.C., 

 xl., p. 41 (1919). [San Antonio, Negros, type 

 in Brit. Mus.] 



Indian 

 Pennisula, 

 Ceylon, 

 Assam, 

 Burma ? 



Celebes. 



Philippine 



Is. (Luzon, 



Samar, 



Negros, 



Mindanao, 



Basilan.) 



