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Above glossy greenish black \vith a very long occipital crest; thigh coverts 

 under-tail and under-wing coverts also glossy greenish black; quills black, 

 greyish underneath ; outer webs of the secondaries deep chestnut at base and 

 towards the tip which is greenish black, rest of the feathers white ; scapulars and 

 some of the coverts next them white internally and tipped chestnut, forming a 

 conspicuous interrupted white wing band ; tail greenish black above, ashy 

 grey beneath ; entire sides of the face and neck as well as the throat black, 

 tinged with brown ; foreneck and chest white, forming a very broad band, 

 followed by an indistinct line of blackish feathers, and another broad band of 

 chestnut covering the upper breast ; lower breast creamy white and banded 

 with chestnut, narrow on the lower part and flanks ; thighs, lower abdomen, 

 under tail -coverts and underwing-coverts greenish black, the lower ones of the 

 latter ashy grey ; bill and legs plumbeous ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 13 to 14 inches ; wing 9 to 9-85 ; tail 5- to 57 ; tarsus i'3 to 1-5. 



Hab. Southern India, Ceylon, the Malayan Peninsula, Lower Bengal, 

 Assam, Tipperah and the Tennaserim provinces of British Burma. 

 Of the nidification of this species nothing is known. 



59. Baza sumatrensis, Lafr. Rev. Zool, 1848, p. 216 ; Gray Gen. B. 

 III. App. p. 2, 1849; Wall Ibis, 1868, p. 18; Sharpe Cat. Ace., p. 357; 

 Stray F. ii. p. 378 ; iii. p. 313 ; iv. p. 248; vi. p. 25 ; viii. p. 444. THE 

 SUMATRAN CRESTED KITE. 



Male. Hume's specimen from Tennaserim Baza incognita, nobis. Fore- 

 head, and a broad but inconspicuous band from the latter over the eyes to the 

 nape pale whitey brown (not noticeable in Sharpe's figure) ; the shafts darker 

 brown; crown of the head, occiput, nape and sides of the neck rufescent buff; 

 the feathers broadly centred with dark brown ; crest black, narrowly and obso- 

 letely barred the feathers with white tips ; lores and an inconspicuous band under 

 the eye and the base of the ear-coverts grey, the feathers darker shafted ; rest 

 of ear-coverts and lateral portions of the throat fulvous, the feathers dark shafted ; 

 chin and throat pure white, slightly tinged with yellowish, and with a narrow 

 and conspicuous black central stripe ; upper breast mingled white and a pale 



