273. 
Gen. LXXXVII. 
174 
head and hind neck streaked with blackish 
and much varied with white ; tail with 5 
broad black bands ; below creamy white, 
with broad streaks of dark brown on throat 
and breast, narrowing below ; cere and bill 
bluish white, tip of latter blackish. 
Henicopernis infuscata Gurney, Ibis, 1882, 
p- 128. [Blanche Bay, New Bnitain, type 
in Mus. Phil. Acad., co-type in Brit. Mus.] 
Gurney’s Long-tailed Kite. 
Wing ¢ 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 buffish, with dark 
shaft stripes. 
New Britain. 
MACHAERHAMPHUS 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. Macherhamphus alcinus Westerm., Bijdr. S. Tenasserim, 
tot te Dierk., i., pt. 2, p. 29, pl. 12 (1851). 
[Malacca, type in Leyd. Mus.] 
Malacca Pern. 
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. 
Malay Penin., 
Sumatra, 
Borneo, 
New Guinea. 
