109 



Wing ad. 12.3, bill stouter, culmen 1.5 in. ; 

 above purplish brown ; crown and crest 

 black ; throat and chest grey, former with 

 broad black central stripe ; below white, 

 banded with pale rufous ; sides of face 

 greyish, washed with rufous. 

 260c. Baza jerdoni magnirostris (Gray), Cat. Accip. Philippine 

 B.M.,' p. 19 (1844, nom. nad.) , (Kaup), Isis, Is. 

 1847, p. 343. [ex Gray, Manila.] 

 Philippine Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Wing ad. 11-12 in. ; culmen 1.25 in. ; above 

 darker brown ; ear -co verts dark cinereous 

 instead of grey ; chest rufous ; below banded 

 with darker rufous brown. 

 260d. Baza jerdoni erythrothorax Sharpe, P.Z.S., Celebes ; 

 1873, p. 625 (June 1873). [Celebes.] Sula Is. 



Rufous -chested Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Smaller ; wing (imm. 5) 10.8 in. ; below 

 white without median black line on throat ; 

 breast and abdomen washed with creamy 

 buff, sides and flanks with slight spots of 

 pale tawny buff. 

 260e. Baza jerdoni leucopias Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p, 

 195. [Palawan I.] 



Wing cj 12.85-12.95; $ 13.15-13.60 in.; 

 above brown, slaty black on wings ; head, 

 mck and chest ashy grey ; with small 

 occipital crest black ; tail ashy brown, with 

 broad subterminal and 3 other black bands ; 

 breast buffy white, banded with chestnut 

 brown [blackish in oldest birds] ; thighs and 

 under wing and tail-coverts buffy rufous. 

 261. Baza suhcristata subcristata (Gould), Syn. 

 Bds. Austral., pt. iii., pi. 46 (1838). [New S. 

 Wales.] 

 Australian Cuckoo -Falcon. 



Smaller; wing (^ 11.65-12.10 ; ? 12.5-12.85 

 in. 

 261a. Baza subcristata timorlaoensis Meyer, Abhanrll. 

 Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, 1892-3. No. 3, p. 

 5 (1893). [Timorlaut.] 

 Tenimber Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Palawan 



Island 



(Philippines). 



Australia 

 (N.S. Wales, 

 Queensland) ; 

 S.E. New 

 Guinea. 



Tenimber 

 Island. 



