106 



256. 



256a. 



Size similar ; above [oldest dress] much 

 darker, slaty black ; tail with 2 brownish 

 white bands ; throat white, with median 

 black streak ; "upper chest greyish, below 

 banded with grey and white ; less old birds 

 have tail browner, with 3 narrow whitish 

 bands and another across tipper tail-coverts ; 

 below chestnut rufous, irregularly barred, 

 except on chest, with whitish and indistinct 

 darker bars. 



Harpagus bidentatus bidentatus (Lath.), Ind. 

 Orn., i., p. 38, 1790. [Cayenne] 

 Double-toothed Hawk. 



Size slightly larger, wing ad. 8.8 in. ; above 

 browner ; below banded as in less old stage 

 of last forrn. 



Harpagus bidentatus fasciatus Lawr., Pr. Phil. 

 Acad., 1868, p. 429. [Guatemala.] 



Peru, 

 Guiana, 

 Venezuela, 

 Colombia . 



Central 

 America 

 (Guatemala 

 to Panama), 



Gen. LXXVII. BAZA Hodgs. (1836). 

 Size moderate, length under 20 in. ; head with 

 occipital crest ; bill with 2 teeth (sometimes 

 appearing as serrations) ; nostrils linear ovals, 

 without tubercles ; wings reaching to or beyond 

 end of tail. 



Wing ad. 9.50-9.85 ; tail 5.7 in. ; crest long ; 

 above glossy greenish black, browiaer on 

 sides of head and throat ; secondaries white, 

 except at edges and tips, chestnut subter- 

 minally [except in very old birds] ; chest 

 white, followed by a band of black across 

 upper breast, more or less mixed with 

 chestnut ; lower breast and flanks creamy 

 white, banded with chestnut ; vent, thighs 

 • and under wing- and tail-coverts greenish 

 black. Immature : much more chestnut in 

 secondaries and less barred below. 

 257. Baza lophotes (Temm.), PI. Col., i., pi. 10 

 (1824). [Pondicherry.] 

 Crested Cuckoo -Falcon. 



India (sub- 

 Himalayan 

 dist. to 

 Ceylon) ; 

 Tenasserim ; 

 Indo -China ; 

 Malay Pen. 



