BAZA. 237 



feathers also shaded with greenish in certain lights; quills brown, tipped 

 with whitish, barred with purplish brown, the secondaries very much 

 paler brown, against which the bands of darker brown contrast strongly, 

 especially the subterminal one, which has a distinct purplish gloss ; under 

 surface of quills grayish white, with dark brown bands, pure white near 

 the base ; tail brown, tipped with whity brown, and crossed by three bands 

 of dark purplish brown, the subterminal one being very broad, and glossed 

 with greenish ; under surface of tail grayish white, like that of the wings, 

 the subterminal band distinctly marked, the basal ones very faintly, 

 excepting on the outermost feathers, which have a patch of dark brown 

 on the outer web, extending on to the inner one also; under surface of 

 body whitish, broadly streaked on sides of throat and chest, banded on 

 breast, and spotted on under tail-coverts with pale rufous, darker and 

 more inclining to rufous-brown on flanks, sides of body, and axillars; 

 down the center of the throat extending to the fore neck, a broad black 

 streak; under wing-coverts buffy white, spotted with pale rufous, the 

 lower ones barred with this color. Bill horn-black, browner on lower 

 mandible ; feet yellow. Length, 444 ; culmen, 38 ; wing, 312 ; tail, 206 ; 

 tarsus, 38. 



"Adult male (type). Another specimen in the national collection 

 (British Museum) differs from the foregoing in not having so stout a 

 bill, in the sides of the face being more conspicuously gray, this shade 

 also extending over the throat and breast, the former of which is narrowly 

 streaked with grayish down the center ; the crown of the head is blackish, 

 feathers of the forehead being edged with 'rufous; the sides and hind 

 part of the neck similarly marked, producing a striped appearance; oc- 

 cipital crest black, with a narrow white tip to one or two of the feather ; 

 the bands on the breast very broad and pale rufous. Length, 389 ; cul- 

 men, 34; wing, 292; tail, 190; tarsus, 38. This would apparently be 'the 

 adult male, and the other perhaps a female not quite adult." (Sharpe.) 



195. BAZA LEUCOPAIS Sharpe. 

 WHITEHEAD'S BAZA. 



Basa leucopias SHARPE, Ibis (1888), 195 (error). 



Baza, leucopais WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1890), 43, pi. 2; SHARPE, Hand-List 

 (1899), 1, 271; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 44. 



Palawan ( Whit ehead ) ; Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Bourns & 

 Worcester ) . . 



"Young female. General color above brown, with whitish brown 

 margins to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts brown, the inner ones rufous, 

 with brown centers ; median and greater coverts pale rufous, white exter- 

 nally toward the ends and round the tips; alula dark brown, externally 

 rufous; primary-coverts uniform dark brown; quills dark brown fringed 

 with white round the ends, and crossed with blackish brown bars, four in 



