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  Dr. 
  R. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe 
  — 
  Bornean 
  Notes. 
  

  

  Baram 
  district 
  by 
  my 
  friend 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  Hose^ 
  and 
  were 
  added 
  

   to 
  the 
  Sarawak 
  Museum, 
  which 
  has 
  a 
  fine 
  set 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Hose's 
  

   collections. 
  

  

  The 
  history 
  of 
  Baza 
  in 
  Borneo 
  is 
  very 
  simple, 
  the 
  first 
  

   recorded 
  occurrence 
  in 
  the 
  island 
  being 
  a 
  female 
  bird 
  pro- 
  

   cured 
  by 
  Diard 
  near 
  Pontianak 
  and 
  recorded 
  by 
  Schlegel 
  in 
  

   his 
  ' 
  Museum 
  des 
  Pays-Bas 
  ' 
  as 
  Baza 
  reinwardti 
  (Pernes, 
  

   p. 
  6). 
  In 
  the 
  ' 
  Accipitres 
  ' 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Oiseaux 
  des 
  Indes 
  Neer- 
  

   landaises/ 
  this 
  same 
  specimen 
  is 
  figured 
  (pi. 
  28. 
  fig. 
  5) 
  as 
  

   the 
  young 
  of 
  Baza 
  magnirostris. 
  Salvadori 
  (Ucc. 
  Born, 
  

   p. 
  11) 
  united 
  the 
  Bornean 
  ?>'^e,c\e% 
  io 
  Baza 
  jerdoni 
  (Blyth), 
  

   and 
  considered 
  B. 
  sumatrensis, 
  Lafr., 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  same. 
  In 
  my 
  

   ' 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Birds' 
  (vol. 
  i. 
  p. 
  358) 
  I 
  united 
  Baza 
  jerdoni 
  

   of 
  Blyth 
  to 
  B. 
  reinwardti, 
  and 
  1 
  figured 
  B. 
  sumatrensis 
  

   (pi. 
  xi. 
  fig. 
  1). 
  In 
  1876 
  Dr. 
  Briiggemann 
  (Abhandl. 
  nat. 
  

   Ver. 
  Bremen, 
  v. 
  p. 
  47) 
  applied 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  B. 
  borneensis 
  to 
  

   the 
  Bornean 
  bird. 
  

  

  In 
  1875 
  Mr. 
  Hume 
  (Str. 
  F. 
  iii. 
  p. 
  313) 
  described 
  very 
  

   fully 
  some 
  specimens 
  of 
  Baza, 
  one 
  from 
  Native 
  Sikhim 
  and 
  

   the 
  other 
  from 
  Southern 
  Tenasserim, 
  and 
  suggested 
  the 
  name 
  

   Baza 
  incognita 
  for 
  them, 
  though 
  he 
  stated 
  the 
  probability 
  

   of 
  their 
  being 
  identical 
  with 
  the 
  Baza 
  sumatrensis 
  of 
  my 
  

   * 
  Catalogue.' 
  

  

  The 
  receipt 
  of 
  the 
  three 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Sarawak 
  Mu- 
  

   seum 
  goes 
  far 
  to 
  clear 
  up 
  the 
  difficulties 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  

   above-mentioned 
  identifications, 
  but 
  the 
  specimens 
  of 
  Baza 
  

   are 
  so 
  rare 
  in 
  collections 
  that 
  even 
  now 
  the 
  series 
  before 
  me 
  is 
  

   meagre 
  enough, 
  though 
  it 
  contains 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  Baza 
  incognita 
  

   and 
  B. 
  magnirostris. 
  One 
  thing 
  is 
  quite 
  evident, 
  viz. 
  that 
  the 
  

   possession 
  of 
  white 
  tips 
  to 
  the 
  crest-feathers 
  merely 
  indicates 
  

   immaturity, 
  a 
  further 
  sign 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  white 
  or 
  pallid 
  

   margins 
  to 
  the 
  wing-coverts 
  and 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  dark 
  bars 
  

   on 
  the 
  tail. 
  In 
  this 
  latter 
  character 
  Baza 
  follows 
  Pernis, 
  

   and 
  the 
  bands 
  on 
  the 
  tail 
  decrease 
  to 
  three 
  in 
  the 
  adults 
  and 
  

   are 
  four 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  young. 
  

  

  My 
  characters 
  for 
  B. 
  sumatrensis 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Catalogue 
  ' 
  are 
  

   those 
  of 
  a 
  young 
  bird, 
  and 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  the 
  throat-stripe 
  is 
  

   also 
  a 
  sign 
  of 
  immaturity. 
  Thus 
  the 
  ' 
  Key 
  ' 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  

   Baza 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Catalogue 
  ' 
  requires 
  revision, 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  