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si'iz.ETis ni:pai.i:xsis. 



Spizsetus uepaleusis (Hodj^s.); Slturpc, totn. ri(., [>. 2«»7. 



A 3^oixng male was obtaiued by the Muttcum coll.MriorH at Simm;i 

 TJdaug, Pulau Torutau, north of Penant,'. on ilio lOtli Man-li, VMfJ. 



This fine Forest Eagle has not hithi-do Imimi r»vonli?tl fn»ra 

 the Malay Peninsula, nor, according to Blanfor<l (Fann. IJrit. I ml. 

 Birds, iii., p. 352, 1895), does it occur in Biiniuih. 



The under surface is an almost uniform Naluiou buff as in aliMi tlus 

 head. The tail is whitish at the base with a very narrow wliitu 

 tip and six broad dark bars. Crest 3! inches long, dark brown wi*'. •. 

 buff base and a narrow -white tip. The t'catlicrin;^' of ili.- l<'t».t i-xi. : , 

 well on to the terminal phalanx of the middle tot*. 



Dimensions. — Wing, 16.4 inches; tail, 12 iuclu- , ;..,^.^. 11 

 inches. Bill from gape, 1.9 inches ; oulmeu (from corf), 1.2.'i uu-ln-w. 



IIAZA .JKKIIOM. 



Baza jerdoni (Blyth); Jnuni. A>iial. S->r. li,n.j., xi.. p. W>\ (1»42); 

 Blanford, Faun. Brit. hid. Birds, iii., p. til (1H1I5). 



Baza suniatrensis, Sharpe, op. elf., p. 3.')7. pi. \i . li-r i // ' •• 

 Strai/ Feathers, iii., p. 313; Hume and Barisun, op. .it., vi.. ]• -' 

 Huiiie, op. cit., vii.. p. 198, Note; Gnrnoy, op. cit., viii.. p. -W-i. 



There are three specimens of this Cuckoo-Falcon in th." S.-laujfi.r 

 Museum— an adult, sex not determined, from Larut. P.T.ik. mount.-l 

 and in poor condition; an adult mah- fronj Sun:^.'! Kibm. TmUu 

 Langkawi, north of Penang, shot on the 22ud F.-bruary. 1'.h.'.»: and 

 an immature female, dated the 23rd Fcbruarv. l"..-. r.-,., , fl... ..n...- 

 locality. 



Adult Male.— Top of tlu- head bhu-kish l.ro«n. "i-h - 

 and loral region grev, feathers of the nape broadly t'dg^sl ^. 

 brown, mantle back' and rump blackish brown. Tail litfhtor bn.wu 

 whitish at the base, with four bars of blackish, the tormmal nm- uukI, 

 the broadest, narrowly tipped with white; tail iK-nmth l^rn^l Ma.k 

 and white, the white bars mu.]> the broadest. Throat an-l n, 

 dull rufous edged with white, the feathei-s in .sonu- «u«.« • ^ 



centres and shaft stripes. A l>lackish ehiu sir.,.;. Bn*-t. « UUm„,. . 

 flanks and under tail coverts barrel with rufous bn.wn and wh. o. h. 

 white bars the narrower; the dark bars n.ueh mon- bla.k,-h on the 

 flanks and more rufous ,m the thighs and under tad o.x. ^■ 



laries similar, under wing coverts and angle ..f the 7»»^' ^ ' 



barred, tipped au<l edged with wlute. ^^ '"K' f.-« -- l--*"- 

 secondaries and teitials) inconspieuously Kirn.< «.t h U< 

 dull brown externally, .narkcdly barn.l -•"' '' 'f/"''i^'^;^,^l^ ,...,,' 

 like the tail, on their internal aspect. Crest bWk. n.m..l, U|'l 



with white. ... . >.... 1 il 



inche.; bill from gape, l.:;r in.l.o, ; l-H fro", -r- '" •'""«'-" "-■ 



.97 inches; crest, 2.3 inches. 



