464: Mr. J. H. Gurney’s Notes on 
passage :—“ A. verreauxi .... indentations of the tomia 
double ; A. cuculoides ... . indentations of the tomia single,” 
—as to which I may observe that in the specimens of Baza 
cuculoides which I have examined, consisting of two in the 
British and two in the Norwich Museum, the indentations of 
the tomia are double, just as in B. verreauxi, but in both 
species the hinder tooth is but little developed in very young 
birds*. JI may add that Swainson describes the type speci- 
men of his “ Aviceda cuculoides” as having “ two teeth on 
each side ” of the bill (vide ‘ Birds of West Africa,’ p. 104). 
The Norwich Museum possesses a specimen of B. cucu- 
loides from Bissao, which is the most northerly locality from 
which I have seen this species. It has been found as far 
southward as Landana, Loango, an immature male from 
thence having been recorded by Messrs. Sharpe and Bouvier 
in the ‘ Bull. S. Z. de la France’ for 1876, p. 301. This speci- 
men was noted by the collector as having “ pattes et pau- 
piéres jaunes, yeux jaunes verdatres,” and is fully described 
by Messrs. Sharpe and Bouvier, the immature plumage not 
having been previously alluded to by Mr. Sharpe in his 
Catalogue. 
The most northerly specimen of B. verreauxi which I have 
seen is an adult in the the Norwich Museum from the Zam- 
besi country ; its southern range extends to Natal, but not, 
so far as I am aware, to the south of that colony. This spe- 
cies seems to be limited to the countries adjacent to the 
south-eastern coast of Africa, and B. cuculoides to those on 
* the western coast: neither species has, I believe, ever been 
obtained at any great distance inland. 
With regard to Baza madagascariensis, I may observe that, 
since the publication of Mr. Sharpe’s volume, an important 
article upon that species (from which I have already quoted) 
has appeared in the great work on the birds of Madagascar 
* A similar phenomenon occurs in Baza lophotes, of which species 
Captain Legge, in his ‘ Birds of Ceylon,’ remarks, “ In birds of the year 
the anterior tooth is less developed than in the adult, and the second or 
posterior notch is not developed.” 
