*269c. 
270. 
270a. 
169 
Like B. c. verreauxi but with a brown hood ; 
under wing-coverts paler red brown ; bands 
of under parts lighter. 
Aviceda cuculoides verreauxi Lafr., Rev. 
Zool., 1846, p. 130. [Near Port Natal, type 
in M.C.Z., Harvard. ] 
Verreaux’s Cuckoo-Falcon. 
Slightly larger; wing g 322 mm.; above 
rather dark ashy grey shaded with brown ; 
crown and crest blacker; upper tail- 
coverts ashy grey with brown tips; chest 
and throat grey ; below barred with rufous 
brown and white; under wing- coverts 
barred with pale rufous and fulvous ; 
2 browner above and more strongly barred 
below. ' 
Aviceda jerdoni jerdoni (Blyth), Jnl. As. 
Soc. Beng., xi., p. 464 (1842). [Malacca, 
type in Mus. As. Soc. Beng.] 
Jerdon’s Cuckoo-Falcon. 
Wing 3 323, 2 332 mm. ; culmen 35 mm. ; 
crown and nape pale fulvous, with blackish 
central streaks; nape more tinged with 
rufous ; crest long, black tipped with white; 
throat white with distinct central streak of 
black ; foreneck and chest streaked with 
pale rufous ; below white, with broad bands 
of pale rufous; oldest birds very much 
darker above and below, the bars below 
rufous brown, age apparently accounting 
for the light and dark forms of this species. 
Aviceda jerdoni ceylonensis (Legge), Stray 
Feath., iv., p. 247 (1876). [Near Kandy, 
Ceylon. ] 
Ceylon Cuckoo-Falcon. 
S.E. Africa 
(Natal to 
Zambesi and 
Nyasaland ; 
also Southern 
Cape Colony.) 
E. Himalayas 
(Sikkim) ; 
Burmese 
countries ; 
Malay Pen.. 
Sumatra 
Ceylon ; 
S. India 
(Wynaad cas.). 
