261b. 



110 



Scarcely smaller; wing c^ 11.30-11.65; $ 

 11.85-12.35 in. ; fore neck and chest very 

 pale grey ; bands on under parts narrower, 

 as also those on under surface of quills. 

 Baza suhcristata pallida Stresemann, Nov. 

 ZooL, XX., p. 307 (1913). [cJ Tual, Kei Is., 

 Kiihn coll., Tring Mus.] 



WingcJ 11.25-11.90, ? 11.25-12.10 in. ; head, 

 neck all round, interscapulary region and 

 chest ashy grey ; crest blackish ; scapulars 

 and inner secondaiies chocolate brown ; 

 breast and flanks buffy white, with blackish 

 brown crossbars ; vent, under tail-coverts 

 and under wing-coverts orange buff. 

 261c. Baza suhcristata reinwardti (Mull. & Schl.), 

 Naturl. Versch., Av., p. 35, tab. 5 (1843). 

 [" Celebes, Borneo," errore — type loc. subst. 

 Stresemann : Amhoina.] 

 Reinwardt's Cuckoo -Falcon. 



[Said to be larger.] 

 261 d. Baza suhcristata megala Stresem., Nov. Zool., 

 XX., p. 307 (1915). [Fergusson I., D'Entre- 

 casteaux Archip.] 



Size almost the same ; under wing-coverts 

 paler isabelline colour. 

 261e. Baza suhcristata gurneyi Ramsay, Jnl. Linn. 

 Soc. Zool., xvi., p. 130 (1881). [Solomon Is.] 

 Solomon Islands Cuckoo -Falcon. 



Slightly larger ; wingcJ 12.25-12.35 ; $ 12.50- 

 13.05 in. 

 261f . Baza suhcristata bismarcki Sharpe, in Gould's 

 Bds. New Guinea, i., pi. 4 (1888). [Bis- 

 marck Archip.] 

 Bismarck's Cuckoo -Falcon. 



Wing ad. 12.50 in. ; hind neck much darker 

 grey ; throat and chest light ashy grey, but 

 chest with broad tips of rusty rufous, obscur- 

 ing the grey ; below closely and broadly 



Kei and 

 Goram Is. 



Moluccas 

 (Ceram, 

 Amboina, 

 Bouru, 

 Aru Is. 

 Misol) ; 

 New Guinea, 



Fergusson 1.* 



Solomon 

 Islands. 



New Ireland, 

 New Guinea, 

 Duke of 

 York I. & 

 New 

 Hanover. 



* Said to be a synonym (c/. Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, Suppl., ii., p. 270, 1915), 

 and B. s. stenozona Gray, from Aru Is., seems non-separable. 



