107 



258. 



Larger ; wing rj 12.5, tail 8 in. ; ? wing 13, 

 tail 9 in. ; general colour brown, darker on 

 mantle, most of the feathers with paler 

 margins, those of head with rufous margins 

 and white bases ; crest dark brown ; pri- 

 maries ashy brown, banded with darker 

 brown ; tail ashy grey with 3 bands of dark 

 brown ; throat with median and moustachial 

 blackish stripes ; below white, upper breast 

 and sides longitudinally marked with rufous 

 brown, lower flanks almost uniform. 



Bc^za madaqascariensis (Smith), S. Afr. Q. Madagascar. 

 JnL, ii., p. 285 (1835). [Madagascar.] 

 Madagascar Cuckoo-Falcon. 



259. 



Smaller; wing ad. 11.6 in. ; above ashy 

 brown ; head, crest and inter scapulary region 

 darker, inclining to slaty black ; quills brown 

 above and ashy white below, barred with 

 dark brown on inner webs, the subterminal 

 band broad ; upper tail-coverts tipped and 

 barred with white ; tail ashy grey, tipped 

 with white, with broad subterminal and 3 

 other bands of black ; throat and chest clear 

 grey ; below buffy white, barred with tawny 

 rufous ; under wing-coverts uniform tawny 

 rufous. 



Baza cuculoides cuculoides (Swains.), Bds. 

 W. Africa, i., p. 104, pi. 1 (1837). [" W. 

 Africa ''= SenegaJJ., type in CJamb. Mus.] 

 W. African Cuckoo -Falcon. 



W. Africa 

 (Senegal to 

 Gold Coast). 



259a. 



Much darkd!" above, uniform slaty black ; 

 throat and chest pale grey, the barrings 

 below confined to upper breast and of a 

 much darl<:er brown colour ; belly, flanks, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts pure white, 

 with little trace of buff ; under wing-coverts 

 uniform rusty rufous. 



Baza cuculoides batesi, subsp. no v. [cJ River 

 J a, Cameroon, coll. G. L. Bates, Feb. 5, 

 1907. Brit. Mus. Reg.. No. 1911. 5.31.60.] 



[Not seen.] 

 259b. Baza cuculoides emini Reichenow, J.f.O., 

 1894, p. 163. [Albert Nyanza.] 



W. Africa 

 (Cameroon 

 to Aruwhimi 

 R., Upper 

 Congo). 



Equatorial 

 Africa. 



