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recognised as the true Baza reinwardti as is done by modern authors, since the 
plate given (under a 1) represents two of them and the first of the descriptions 
is made from one of them. The two specimens from Celebes and Borneo were 
then identified by Schlegel and others with the closely allied B . magnirostris 
Gray of the Philippines^) (c II) \ finally the Celebes and Sula Islands’ form was 
marked off as a distinct species and named almost simultaneously B. celehensis 
by Schlegel and B. erythrothorax by Sharpe (6, 7). The description of 
Schlegel was published in July, 1873; that of Dr. Sharpe received at a 
meeting of the Zoological Society of London in June of the same year; but, as 
such , papers are not published in the Proceedings till October, the priority rests with 
Schlegel. In the Catalogue of the Birds of Prey in the British Museum, 1874, the 
specimen from Borneo was overlooked except that Schlegel’s figure of it was 
included in the synonymy of the Celebesian species. For a long time it remained 
the only example on record from Borneo. It was identified by Salvadori 
(Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 11) with Baza jerdoni Blyth of Malacca, but was named 
as distinct B. borneensis by Briiggemann r. 3)- Ultimately Dr. Sharpe re- 
ceived 3 specimens from the Baram District of Borneo shot by Mr. Hose, and 
the distinctness of the Bornean birds as a species is upheld by him, though 
their identity with the Sumatran form is regarded as possible (Ibis 1893, 554- — ■ 
557). The Sumatran bird, according to Sharpe, is the same as B. jerdoni of 
Malacca and B. incognita Hume of Tenasserim and Native Sikkim. Mr. Blan- 
ford (Faun. Br. Ind. B. 1895 HI, 411), who remarks that only one specimen 
is known from Tenasserim and one from Sikkim, agrees with Dr. Sharpe in 
uniting the birds from Sikkim to Sumatra as one species. 
The Celebesian Baza is interesting as a link between Celebes and Sula, 
it is also of interest from its being very closely allied to the Philippine, Bornean 
and Sumatran species^), but not so with B. reinwardti of the Moluccas and 
Papuasia from Burn to New Guinea. It is a rather rare bird in collections; 
probably, like its congeners, it inhabits thick forest and preys entirely upon 
insects, as Davison observed to be the case with Baza lophotes (Str. F. VI, 
1878, 24). Of the breeding of the Bazae next to nothing is known. In 
Australia Mr. Earns ay procured a nest of B. subcristatus containing three eggs, 
and others have been obtained there also. Quite recently Mr. Blanford has 
described the nest and 3 eggs of B. lophotes from Tenasserim (B. Br. Ind. 1895 
III, 410; North, Nests and Eggs B. Austr. 1889, 15). 
A 25. BAZA REINWARDTI Mull. Schl. 
Eeinwardt’s Baza. 
a. Faleo (Lophotes) Reinwardtii, part. (I) S. Milll. & ScliL, Yerli. Natuurk Comm. 1839—44 
Aves, 35, pi. 5, fig. 2. ’ 
1) The type is labelled “June, Island of Manilla, South” by Cuming (Sharpe, Ibis 1893, 555). 
2) The genus has not yet been discovered in Java. 
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