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Slightly larger ; wing (^ 12.7 in. ; above 

 rather dark a.shy grey, shaded with brown ; 

 crown and crest blacker ; upper tail-coverts 

 ashy grey with brown tips ; under wing- 

 coverts barred with pale rufous and ful- 

 vous ; 5 browner above and more strongly 

 barred below. 

 259c. Baza cuculoides verreauxi (Lafr.), Rev. ZooL, S.E, Africa 

 1846, p. 130. [Port Natal.] (Natal to 



Verreaux's Cuckoo -Falcon. Zambesi). 



Wing(? 12.75, $ 13.10 in. ; culmen 1.4 in. ; 

 crown and nape pale fulvous, with blackish 

 central streaks ; nape more tinged with 

 rufous ; crest long, black tipped with white ; 

 throat white with distinct central streak of 

 black ; foreneck and chest streaked with 

 pale rufous ; below white, with broad bands of 

 pale rufous ; oldest birds very much darker 

 above and below, the bars below rufous 

 brown, age apparently accounting for the 

 light and dark forms of this species. 

 260. Baza jerdoni jerdoni (Blyth), Jnl. As. Soc. 

 Beng., xi., p. 464 (1842). [Malacca, type in 

 Mus. As. Soc. Beng.] 

 Jerdon's Cuckoo -Fa Icon. 



E. Himalayas 

 (Sikkim) ; 

 Burmese 

 countries ; 

 Malay Pen., 

 Sumatra. 



Slightly smaller ; wing ad. 11.7 in. ; croAvn 

 black, edged with rufous ; crest black, tipped 

 with white ; chin and throat buff with broad 

 mesial black streak ; chest tawny cinereous, 

 with brownish shaft streaks ; below white 

 irregularly banded with pale rufous. 

 260a. Baza jerdoni ceylonensis Legge, Stray Feath., 

 iv., p. 247 (1876). [Matab, Ceylon.] 

 Ceylon Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Wing (J 1 1 .5 ; culmen 1 .05 in . ; " sides of face 

 and neck dull rufous ; chest white, the 

 feathers edged with rufous and with triangular 

 black centres ; under wing-coverts rufous 

 with paler edges ; rufous bars on flanks 

 broader and inclining to dark brown." 

 260b. Baza jerdoni borneensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1893, Borneo 

 p. 557. [Baran dist., Borneo, type in Sarawak 

 Mus.] 

 Bornean Cuckoo -Falcon. 



Ceylon ; 

 S. India 

 (Wynaad 

 cas.). 



