174 



head and hind neck streaked with blackish 

 and much varied with white ; tail with 5 

 broad black bands ; bdlow creamy white, 

 with broad streaks of dark brown on throat 

 and breast, narrowing below ; cere and bill 

 bluish white, tip of latter blackish. 



273. Henicopernis infuscata Gurney, Ibis, 1882, New Britain, 

 p. 128. [Blanche Bay, New Britain, type 

 in Mus. Phil. Acad., co-type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Gurney's Long-tailed Kite. 



Wing <J 341-355, tail 250 mm. ; much 

 darker ; wing-coverts and upper scapulars 

 dark brown instead of banded with light 

 and dark brown ; secondaries and prima- 

 ries with 3 pale bands ; tail with 4 blackish 

 brown bands ; below blackish brown with 

 pale edgings, the belly bufhsh, with dark 

 shaft stripes. 



Gen. LXXXVII. MACH^RHAMPHUS Westerm. (1851). 

 Type by monotypy M. alcinus Westerm. 



Head strongly crested ; bill weak and slightly 

 keeled ; loral plumes produced above half the 

 nostril. Size moderate (length 18.5 in.). 



274. Machterhamphus alcinus Westerm., Bijdr. S. Tenasserim, 



tot te Dierk., i., pt. 2, p. 29, pi. 12 (1851). Malay Penin., 



[Malacca, type in Leyd. Mus.] Sumatra, 



Malacca Pern. Borneo, 



New Guinea. 



Wing 360, tail 198 mm. ; black, with a 

 chocolate brown shade ; a well-defined 

 spot above and below eye white ; throat 

 and centre of chest white ; chin and a 

 broad streak down throat, as well as sides 

 of latter, and a few spots on lower parts 

 black. 



