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as buchanani, which name must take precedence. The descrip- 

 tion ci differs from hortulana in having the head, neck, and 

 streak descending from the lower mandible ash grey instead 

 of dull green," is quite sufficient to fix the species beyond possi- 

 bility of doubt. 



I do not know on what grounds Moore and Horsfield (Cat. 

 B. Mus., E. I. C, II., 484) identified Hamilton's drawings with 

 hortulana, from which it differs in colour, while it altogether 

 agrees with huttoni ; but the identification is certainly wrong, 

 and I may add that hortulana certainly does not occur in any 

 of those parts of India to which Hamilton's investigations 

 extended, (its Persian form, E. shah, Bp., may extend to Khe- 

 lat), while huttoni does. 



On a previous occasion (S. R, III., 313,) I fully described 

 two specimens of a Baza, one from Tenasserim, the other from 

 native Sikhim, which I doubtfully identified with B. sumatrensis, 

 Lafres. 



It was a large bird. Wing in the male, 13*1 ; in the female, 

 13*75 ; much larger than the dimensions usually assigned to suma- 

 trensis, and with a conspicuous central throat stripe, in this res- 

 pect resembling magnirostris, and I proposed for it, if dis- 

 tinct, the name of incognita. 



I have now to record another species of Baza shot in Octo- 

 ber in the Wynaad — a young bird, obviously of quite a 

 distinct species to my incognita, which I am disposed to 

 identify with Mr. Legge's species Baza ceylonensis, of which 

 description and dimensions have already been given (S. F., IV., 

 2470 



This present specimen measures in the skin : — 



Length, 17-3; wing, 11-95; tail, 7'9 ; tarsus, l'Sj bill from 

 gape, 1*3 ; culmen from edge of cere to point, 1*03. 



The bird was a male, and these dimensions tally very well 

 with Mr. Legge's. 



The entire bill, cere, and claws appear to have been blackish ; 

 the legs and feet yellow ; the tarsus feathered in front to 

 w 7 ithin 0'62 of foot. 



The plumage is, however, in many respects very different to 

 what Mr. Legge describes. 



The forehead, a very broad stripe from the forehead over 

 the eye and ear-coverts, cheeks, chin, throat and breast, white, 

 with a faint creamy tinge. 



The feathers of the forehead and some of those of the cheeks 

 and superciliary band with brown shafts, and the central fea- 

 thers of the chin and throat also with a dark shaft, as if 



