236 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Cebu (Bourns & Worcester) ; Luzon (Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester) ; Min- 

 danao (Everett, Celestino, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (McGregor); Palawan (White- 

 head, Platen); Romblon (McGregor) ; Samar ( Whitehead) ; Sibuyan (Bourns d 

 Worcester) ; Sulu (Platen, Bourns d Worcester) ; 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 light 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 leucopais is unknown. 



Species. 



a 1 . Breast banded with pale rufous ; a black streak down center of throat. 



magnirostris (p. 236) 

 a 2 . 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 1 ), 19; SHABPE, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 356, pi. 10, fig. 1; Hand-List (1899), 1, 

 271; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 44. 



Luzon (Cuming) j 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 



