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Malay Peninsula in open country, especially in the vicinity 

 of large grass plains and on the banks of the rivers. It is 

 known to Mahiys as the Lang belalang^ or grasshopper-hawk, 

 a large proportion of its food consisting of big Acridiidae, 

 thongh it not unfrequently attacks and kills birds weighing 

 a great deal more than itself. 



7^55. Baza lophotes. 



Baza lophotes (Temm.) ; Sharpe, torn, cit. p. 35,2. 



Our men secured two examples of this rare and ])eautiful 

 species in Trang. In the Peninsula generally it is decidedly 

 a scarce bird, and the Selangor Museum possesses only two 

 other specimens — one from Singapore collected many years 

 ago, and another recently procured by Mr. Seimund in the 

 vicinity of Kuala Lumpur. This was shot in the evening at 

 the edge of the jungle perched on a lofty tree. Mr. Seimund 

 particularly noted that its crest was held vertically upward. 



In Singapore Mr. Ridley states that this species is a 

 migratory bird and that he has observed considerable flocks 

 crossing the Botanic Gardens of that city. Mr. Ridley 

 is well acquainted with the local birds and unless he 

 is mistaken in his identification the observation is distinctly 

 interesting. 



^56. Baza JERDONi. 



Ba-a jerdoni (Blyth) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1893, p. 557 ; 

 Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. iv. p. 132 (1909) ; 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 214 (1910) (Hainan). 



Baza sumatrensis (Lafr.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 i. p. 357, pi. xi. fig. 1 (1874) (immature). 



Baza incognita Hume, Stray Feathers, iii. p. 314 (1875) ; 

 id. op. cit. viii. p. 45 (1879). 



Four specimens of this exceedingly rare Cuckoo-Falcon 

 were secured in Trang and two in Langkawi. We have in ad- 

 dition examined one from the " East Indies," in the Liverpool 

 Museum, four in the British jMuseum, including that 

 collected by Wallace in Sumatra (' Ibis,^ 1868, p. 18), the 

 type of Baza incognita from Central Tenasserim (Hume 



