177 
}*278a. Perms cristatus ruficolis Less., Traité, 
279. 
279a. 
p- 76 (1831). (Bengal, type in Paris Mus.] 
[ =P. c. elliott Jerd.] 
Indian Crested Pern. 
Wing 3 380-390, 2 405-418 mm. ; crest (35- 
60 mm.) black; crown and sides of head 
ashy grey; throat striped with black ; 
general colour chocolate brown ; tail with 
broad terminal black band and another 
narrower one nearer base, the wide inter- 
space and basal band ashy brown ; below 
paler brown with distinct black shaft- 
stripes. Immature: fawn below with 
broader shaft-stripes. 
Pernis celebensis celebensis Walden, Tr. 
Z.S., vili., p. 111 (1872). [Celebes, type in 
Brit. Mus.] 
Celebes Pern. 
Smaller; wing ad. 372-392 mm., tail 
265 mm. ; above chocolate brown, the head 
blackish ; feathers of hind neck margined 
with rufous ; lores and feathers round eye 
grey; throat white, with distinct black 
shaft-stripes, and black moustachial and 
central streaks ; chest tawny rufous, with 
broad central streaks of black ; below white 
barred with blackish brown; tail brown 
with 5 bars of darker brown and remains 
of other bars on the interspaces, the tip 
whitish. 
Pernis celebensis steerec W. Sclat., Bull. 
B.O.C., xl., p. 41 (1919). [San Antomo, 
Negros, type in Brit. Mus.] 
Philippine Pern. 
Indian 
Peninsula, 
Ceylon, Assam 
Burma (?). 
Celebes. 
Philippine Is. 
(Luzon, Samar, 
Negros, 
Mindanao, 
Basilan). 
