Ill 



barred with light rusty rufous ; under tail- 

 coverts buffy rufous. 



261 g. Baza subcristata riifa Schl., Vog. Ned. Tnd. 

 Valkvog., pp. 41, 78 (1866). [Halmahera, etc.] 

 Rufous Cuckoo -Falcon. 



N. Molucca 



Islands 



(Halmahera, 



Morotai, 



Batchian, 



Temate, etc.). 



Gen. LXXVIII. HENICOPERNIS Gray (1859). 



Wings falling much short of end of tail ; tail very 

 long, more than five times length of tarsus ; head 

 slightly crested. 



Size large ; wing $ 17.30 ; tail 1 1 .5 in. ; (J wing 

 14.20-14.50 in. ; above ashy brown, broadly 

 barred with black, except on lower back and 

 rump ; head and hind neck .streaked with 

 blackish and much varied with white ; tail 

 with 5 broad black bands ; below creamy 

 white, with broad streaks of dark brown on 

 throat and breast, narrowing below ; cere 

 and bill bluish white, tip of latter blackish ; 

 feet yellowish white ; iris orange yellow. 

 Henicopernis longicauda longicauda (Garnot), 

 Voy. Coq., i., p. 588, pi. 10 (1826). [Dorey, 

 Dutch New Guinea, type in Paris Mus.] 

 Long-tailed Kite. 



262. 



262a. 



Size similar ; wing (J 14.-14.20 in. ; much 

 darker ; wing-coverts and upper scapulars 

 dark brown instead of banded with light and 

 dark brown ; dark bands broader and light 

 bands narrower on wings ; tail with 4 dark 

 bands ; below blackish brown with pale 

 edgings. 



Henicopernis longicauda infuscata Gurney, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 128. [Blanche Bay, New 

 Britain, co-type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Gurney 's Long-tailed Kite. 



New Guinea, 

 Salawati, 

 Misori I., 

 Waigiou, 

 Aru Is. 



New Britain, 



Gen. LXXIX. MACH^RHAMPHUS Westerm. (1851). 



Head strongly crested ; bill weak and slightly keeled; 

 loral plumes produced above half the nostril. 



