248 NOTES ON AND ADDITIONS To CEYLONESE AVI-FAUNA, 
Iris, yellow ; bill, blackish leaden ; lower mandible, palish at 
base ; cere, dusky plumbeous (?) ; tarsi and feet, yellow ; claws, 
plumbeous. 
Lores, blackish ; head, brownish tawny ; over the centre of the 
forehead and crown the feathers are black, the rufous colour 
being confined tothe edges ; occipital crest (1j inches in length) 
black, conspicuously tipped with white; the feathers of the 
hind neck deeply edged with rufous tawny, the centre parts 
being black, which overcomes the pale edges on the lower 
portion ; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail coverts, primary and 
lesser wing coverts, blackish brown ; the latter the deepest and with 
a cinerious tinge ; upper tail coverts, paler than the back ; median 
and greater wing coverts, pale or fulvous brown; quills, black ; 
the outer webs curved by smoking grey bars; the correspond- 
ing band on the inner web being brown ; tertials and second- 
aries, tipped with white; tail, dark smoky grey, with greyish 
white tip, and four blackish bars, the terminal one about 14 
inches in depth ; cheeks and ear coverts, slaty grey with dark 
shafts, the dark feathers of the occiput passing round to meet 
the latter region; chin and throat buff, with a broad mesial 
black streak; sides and lower part of fore-neck with the upper 
edge of pectoral region tawny cinerious, the feathers with 
brownish shafts; below this the under-surface, under-tail, 
and under-wing coverts, are white with broad rufescent brown, 
dark margined brown the chest, flanks, and outer surface of 
thighs; the under-tail coverts and under-wing, are spotted with 
pale rufescent ; the light portions of quills and tail are white 
beneath. 
A second specimen, probably a female, has the wing 12”. 
It is not fully mature having some of the scapulars edged 
white, while the tertials are more deeply tipped than the 
above. 
Some months ago an immature example of a Falcon, which 
had all the characteristics of this genus came under my notice; 
the second or anterior tooth was wanting, but notwithstanding 
it was evidently a Baza andI suggested in epist. to Mr. Sharpe, 
that it might be Baza swmatrensis. I now am of opinion that 
it was nothing more than the young of the present species, 
and probably a female, judging from its length of wing. Its 
length from the skin was about 17 inches; wing, 12"-25; tail, 
8”; tarsus, 1°15; mid toe and claw, 1°15; longest-crest 
feathers, 1”°8. 
The crest was very deeply tipped with white and the entire up- 
per surface dark brown, the feathers edged with whitish through- 
out the tertials and greater wing coverts most conspicuously 
so; quills, blackish brown, with smoke brown bars, paling 
