MICROHIERAX. (55 



60. Baza ceylonensis, Lcgge, Birds nf Ceylon-, Stray F., iv. 

 p. 247; vui - P- 444 : T HE CEYLON CRESTED KITE. 



Lores blackish ; head brownish tawny ; centre of forehead and crown, black, 

 edged with rufous; occipital crest if inches in length, black, conspicuously 

 tipped with white ; the feathers of the hindneck deeply edged with rufous 

 tawny, the centre parts being black ; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail coverts 

 primary and lesser wing coverts blackish brown, the latter the deepest and 

 with a cinerous tinge ; upper tail coverts paler than the back ; median and 

 greater wing coverts pale or fulvous brown ; quills black, the outer webs 

 with smoky grey bars, the corresponding band on the inner web being brown ; 

 tertials and secondaries tipped with white; tail dark smoky grey, tipped 

 greyish white and with four blackish bars, the terminal one about \\ 

 inches in depth ; cheeks and ear-coverts slaty grey with dark shafts, the dark 

 feathers of the occiput passing round to meet the latter region ; chin and 

 throat buff with a broad mesial black streak ; sides and lower part of fore- 

 neck with the upper edge of the pectoral region tawny cinerous, the feathers 

 with brownish shafts ; below this, the under-surface, under-tail and under-wing 

 coverts are white, with broad rufescent brown edges ; iris yellow, also the 

 tarsi and feet ; bill blackish leaden ; lower mandible pale at base ; cere dusky 

 plumbeous. 



Length. To front of cere 16-5; culmcn criO; total length 17*5; wing 117; 

 tail 7-5 ; tarsus 1-5 ; bill to gape 1*2. 



If <ib. Southern India (The VVynaad) and Ceylon (Kandy district). 

 Nothing is known of its habits, &c. 



Gen. Microllierax. Sharpe. 



Bill short ; upper mandible with a tooth and a notch on each side ; wings 

 short ; 2nd and 3rd quills equal ; tarsus short, with large transverse scutae 

 in front. 



61. Microhierax cserulescens, Linn. S. N. i. p. 126; Skarpe, 



Cat. Ace. B. M., p. 366. Harpagus caerulescens, Sws. Classif.B., ii. p. 213. 

 Hierax bcngalensis, Ely. J. A. S. B. xi. pt. ii. p. 789, Hierax Eutolmus, 

 Gray. Gen. B., i. p. 21 ; Jerd. B. ///</., i. p. 42, No. 20; Hume, Rough 

 Notes, i. p. 3. The WHITE-NAPED PIGMY FALCON. 



Adult. Forehead, supercilium continued to down the sides of the neck, 

 and connecting the broad collar on the nape, white; round the eye and a broad 

 streak to the ear coverts black; throat, lower abdomen, under tail coverts, and 

 thi-hs chestnut; occiput to the white collar black, also the mantle, wings, 

 an. I tail; quills black, barred with white on their inner web; tail spotted 

 with white on the inner webs ; lower throat, breast, and" abdomen silky white. 



Length. 5-5 to 6-5 inches; wing 4 to 4-5 ; tail 2'i to 2*5 ; tarsus 075 to 

 0-85. 



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