173 



Size almost the same ; under wing-coverts 

 paler isabelline colour. 



271f. Aviceda subcristata bismarcki (Sharpe), in 

 Gould's Bds. New Guinea, i., pi. 4 (1888). 

 {Bismarck Archip.] 

 Bismarck's Cuckoo-Falcon. 



SUghtly larger ; wing ^ 310-313, ? 317- 

 330 mm. 



New Britain, 

 New Ireland, 

 New Guinea, 

 Duke of York I. 

 & New Hanover 



*271g. Aviceda subcristata rufa (Schl.), Vog. Ned. 

 Ind. Valkvog., pp. 41, 78 (1866). [Halma- 

 hera, etc.] 

 Rufous Cuckoo-Falcon. 



Wing ad. 317 mm. ; hind neck much darker 

 grey ; throat and chest light ashy grey, but 

 chest with broad tips of rusty rufous ob- 

 scuring the grey ; below closely and broadly 

 barred with light rusty rufous ; under tail- 

 coverts buffy rufous. 



N. Molucca Is. 

 (Halmahera, 

 Morotai, 

 Batchian, 

 Ternate, etc.). 



Gen. LXXXVI. HENICOPERNIS Gray (1859). 



Type by orig. desig. Astur longicauda Less. =Falco longicauda 



Garnot. 



Wings falling much short of end of tail ; tail very 

 long, more than five times length of tarsus ; head 

 slightly crested. Size large. 



272. Henicopernis longicauda (Garnot), Voy.Coq., 

 Zool., 1., p. 588, pi. 10 (1828). [Dorey, 

 Dutch New Guinea, type in Paris Mus.] 

 Long-tailed Kite. 



Wing ? 432, tail 290 mm. ; ^ wing 360-368 

 mm. ; above ashy brown, broadly barred 

 with black, except on loser back and rump ; 



New Guinea, 

 Salawati, 

 Misori I., 

 Waigiou, 

 Aru Is. 



