167 



*267. Baza leuphotes (Dumont), Diet. Sci. Nat. 

 (Levrault) xvii., July 1820, p. 217. [Pon- 

 dicherry.] 

 Crested Cuckoo- Falcon. 



Wing ad. 240-250, tail 145 mm. ; crest long; 

 above glossy greenish black, browner on 

 sides of head and throat ; secondaries 

 white, except at edges and tips, chestnut 

 subterminally [except in very old birds] ; 

 chest white, followed by a band of black 

 across upper breast, more or less mixed 

 with chestnut ; lower breast and flanks 

 creamy white, banded with chestnut ; vent, 

 thighs, and under wing- and tail-coverts 

 greenish black. Immature : much more 

 chestnut in secondaries and less barred 

 below. 



India (sub- 

 Himalayan dist. 

 to S. India and 

 Ceylon) ; 

 Assam, Burma, 

 Tenasserim ; 

 N. Malay Pen. ; 

 Siam, Indo- 

 china.^ 



Gen. LXXXV. AVICEDA Swains. (Oct. 1836). 

 Type by monotypy A. cuculoides Swains. 



Occipital crest rudimentary or slight ; lores less 

 compactly feathered ; primaries considerably 

 longer than secondaries. Size moderate. 



268. Aviceda madagascariensis (Smith), S. Afr. Madagascar. 

 Q. Jnl., ii., p. 285 (1834). [Madagascar.] 

 Madagascar Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Wing S 315, tail 203 mm. ; ? wing 329, 

 tail 228 mm. ; general colour brown, darker 

 on mantle, most of the feathers with paler 

 margins, those of head with rufous margins 

 and white bases ; crest dark brown ; pri- 

 maries ashy brown, banded with darker 

 brown ; tail ashy grey with 3 bands of dark 

 brown ; throat with median and mous- 



^ I am unable to recognise B. leuphotes burmana W. Sclat. (Bull. B.O.C., xli., 

 p 32, 1920) as it is founded on a fully adult bird, while the supposed differences of 

 the Indian birds are those of immaturity only. 



