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271b. Aviceda subcristata pallida (Stresemann), Kei and 

 Nov. Zool., XX., p. 307 (1913). \Tual, Coram Is. 

 Kei Is., Kiihn coll., type in Tring Mus.] 



Scarcely smaller ; wing cj 287-295, J 300- 

 313 mm. ; fore neck and chest very pale 

 grey; bands on under parts narrower, as 

 also those on under surface of quills. 



*271c. Aviceda subcristata reinwardti (Mtill. & S. Moluccas 



Schl.), Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Aves, p. 35, (Ceram, 



tab. 5 (1843). [" Celebes, Borneo," errore Amboina, 



— ^type loc. subst. Meyer & Wigles. : Bum, Am Is.,^ 



Amboina.] Misol) ; 



Reinwardt's Cuckoo-Falcon. New Guinea. 



Wing (J 285-302, ? 285-307 mm. ; head, 

 neck aU round and interscaj)ulary region 

 dark slate grey ; chest pale ashy grey ; 

 crest blackish ; scapulars and inner second- 

 aries chocolate brown ; breast and flanks 

 buffy white, with blackish crossbars ; vent, 

 under tail-coverts and \mder wing-coverts 

 orange buff ; longer under wing-coverts 

 creamy white. 



271d. Aviceda subcristata megala (Stresem.), Nov. Fergusson I., 

 Zool., XX., p. 307 (1913). [Fergusson I., Goodenough I. 

 D' Entrecasteaux Archip.] 



Larger : wing ^ 300-314, ? 322-330. 



271e. Aviceda subcristata gurneyi (Ramsay), Jnl. Solomon Is. 



Linn. Soc. Zool., xvi., p. 130 (1883). (Bougainville to 



[Solomon Is.] Guadalcanar). 

 Solomon Islands Cuckoo-Falcon. 



* B. s. stenozona Gray, from Aru Is., seems non-separable. 



