208 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



intermediate between the two species. I once shot a Honey-Buzzard with 

 a crest one and a half inch long ; but all the others (seven or eight) that 

 I obtained in Burmah were crestless, except that in some the feathers of 

 the occiput were slightly lengthened. On the whole,, the Burmese birds 

 appear to be referable to P. ptilorhynchus. 



The Crested Honey-Buzzard is found in most of the parts of Pegu which 

 are well wooded. I procured it on the Pegu hills between Thayetmyo and 

 Tonghoo, at Thayetmyo, at Prome, Shwaygheen and near Pegu Town. 

 Mr. Davison found it very rare in Tenasserim, and only two specimens were 

 procured in that Division one at Moulmein and one at Amherst. Mr. 

 Blyth received a long- crested bird from Mergui, upon which he founded 

 his P. brachypterus ; but he afterwards cancelled this name. This Honey- 

 Buzzard will probably be found to be abundant in Arrakan. 



It occurs over the greater part of the Indian peninsula and Ceylon ; it 

 ranges down the Malay peninsula, and it is met with in Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo and Bangka, and also in Siam and Cochin China. 



In the Malay peninsula another species occurs, which has recently been 

 named P. tweeddalii by Mr. Hume. 



This Honey-Buzzard frequents forests and groves of trees ; its food is 

 chiefly the larvse of wasps and honey, and it also eats caterpillars and other 

 insects. The nest is placed in trees, and the eggs are generally two in 

 number, richly marked with red. 



The Honey-Buzzards, notwithstanding their variations of plumage, may 

 always be recognized by the lores being thickly covered with scale-like 

 feathers. 



Subfamily FALCONING. 



Genus BAZA, Hodgs. 



581. BAZA LOPHOTES. 



THE BLACK-CRESTED KITE-FALCON. 



Falco lophotes, Cuv., Temm. PL Col. 10. Baza lophotes, Jerd. B. 2nd. i. p. Ill ; 

 Hume, Hough Notes, ii. p. 337; Sharpe,' Cat. Birds B. Mm. i. p. 352; Bl. B. 

 Burm. p. 60 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 98 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 24 ; Hume, 

 S. F. viii. p. 83; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 145; Gurney, Ibis, 1880, p. 471; 

 Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 369. 



Description. Male and female. The whole upper plumage, wing-coverts 

 and tail black ; sides of the head and neck, chin, throat and fore neck 

 black ; breast white ; below and next the breast a broad band of black ; 

 next this again, and occupying nearly all the abdomen, pale creamy buff 

 barred with chestnut ; sides of the body the same ; lower abdomen, vent, 



