ACCIPITRES. 

 FALC0N1D.E. 

 FALCONING. 

 Genus BAZA. 

 Hill stout, curved rapidly from the base of the cere ; tip much hooked, and notched with a 

 double tooth ; cere but slightly advanced. Nostrils linear, oblique, covered as in Pernis by the 

 superlying membrane. Wings moderate, rounded, with the 4th quill the longest, and the 1st 

 subequal to the secondaries. Tail moderately long, much exceeding the closed wings. Tarsus 

 short, the front and sides plumed for more than half its length ; the remainder covered through- 

 out with reticulate scales. Middle toe subequal to the tarsus; lateral toes nearly equal; the 

 whole covered with bony transverse scales. Claws rather straight, the inner less than the middle. 

 Head with an elongated occipital crest. 



BAZA CEYLONENSIS. 



(THE CEYLONESE CRESTED FALCON.) 



(Peculiar to Ceylon ?) 



Baza ceylonensis, Legge, Str. Feath. 1876, vol. iv. p. 202 ; Whyte, ibid. 1877, p. 202. 



Similis B. magnirostri sed crista nigra late albo terminate, secundariis late albo terminaliter marginatis : rectrieibus 

 4-fasciatis, plaga subterminaliter minore quam fascia apicalis brunnea: subtiis fulvesceuti-bruuneo nee rufescenti 

 transfasciata : gutture fulvescenti nee cinereo lavato. 



A<l nit. The following are the measurements of the two type specimens described by me loc.ck., the larger of which is 

 presumed to be a female : — Length to front of cere (from skin) 16-5 and 16'S; culmen from cere L01 and 1-03 : 

 wing 11*7 and 12*0; tail 7 - 5 and 8-0; tarsus 1-5 and 1*5; middle toe 1-35 and 1-45; claw (straight) 0-05 

 and 0*68 ; height of bill at cere 0-4 and <»o ; tarsus feathered to Oo from the root of the middle toe. 



1 ris yellow ; bill blackish leaden, lower mandible pale at base ; cere (judging from the skin) dusky plumbeous ; legs and 

 feet yellow ; claws plumbeous, pale at base. 



Male. Back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and centres of the feathers on the hind neck and head deep brown, paling 

 on the rump slightly, and with a strong purple sheen on the mantle as well as on the under-mentioned caudal 

 bars : the feathers of the back with perceptibly pale edgings, those of the head and hind neck broadly margined 

 with pale tawny, the superciliary region being entirely of this colour, the forehead slightly darker with the shafts 

 of the feathers blackish ; crest 1| inch in length, black, conspicuously tipped with white ; greater secondary-coverts 

 and tertials paler brown than the scapulars, many of the feathers tipped whitish, primaries and secondaries smoky 

 brown, the latter and the inner primaries deeply tipped with white, and the whole crossed with blackish bars, the 

 ulterior one being terminal, inner edges of the primaries white on the lighter portion of the feather ; tail drab- 

 brown, pale-tipped, a broad subterminal band of purplish black, and three narrower of the same, the basal one 

 hidden beneath the coverts. 



Lores and a stripe behind the eye blackish brown ; cheeks and ear-coverts slate-grey, with dark shafts ; chin and throat 

 buff, the feathers down the centre with blackish shaft-stripes ; chest and sides of the fore-neck almost uniform 

 tawny cinereous, under surface from the chest, with the under wing-coverts and lower surface of the basal portion 



