468 Mr. J. H. Gurney’s Notes on 
dark bar above the subterminal band on all the rectrices, and 
this is imperfect on the central pair; the subterminal band 
is broad in this specimen, its depth being 2°8 inches. 
A very similar specimen in the Norwich Museum, the 
locality of which is unknown, has also one imperfect upper 
bar on all the rectrices, except the two external pairs, which 
show two irregular upper bands ; the subterminal bar in this 
specimen is 3°5 inches in depth. This bird also much resem- 
bles the example from the New-Britain group, recorded by 
Dr. Sclater in the P. Z. 8. for 1877, p. 109; but there is no 
reason to think that it is from the same locality, as it was 
purchased in Paris many years since, at a period when, so 
far as I know, no birds from the New-Britain group had, as 
yet, reached Europe; M. Parzudaki, from whom it was 
obtained, had incorrectly labelled it “ Baza subcristata, 
Australie.” 
The New-Britain specimen above referred to, and the only 
one which I have been able to examine from that locality, 
has three dark upper bars on the external pair of rectrices, 
two on the next pair, and a single indistinct one on the 
remainder ; the subterminal band is 3°25 inches in depth. 
Mr. E. P. Ramsay, in his “ Contributions to the Zoology 
of New Guinea,” published in the ‘ Proceedings of the Lin- 
nean Society of New South Wales,’ expresses a strong 
opinion that specimens of Baza which he has seen from New 
Ireland are specifically distinct from an example of B. 
reinwardti that he had received from Port Moresby in New 
Guinea; but the latter specimen is not, as it seems to me 
from the description given of it, an adult one, and I much 
doubt whether the differences mentioned by Mr. Ramsay can 
be considered specific; thus Mr. Ramsay remarks that in 
the Port-Moresby bird the primaries “are banded right 
across on all,” but that in his New-Ireland specimens “ the 
primaries are not crossed altogether.” I have, however, seen 
specimens from localities other than New Britain or New 
Ireland in which the upper transverse bars on the primaries 
are imperfect. Again, the cross-barring on the thighs ob- 
served by Mr. Ramsay in his Port-Moresby specimen is only 
