Birds of Celebes: Falconidae. 
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GENUS BAZA Hdgs. 
Birds of small-medium size, with a nuchal crest, long and nearly square 
tail, and moderately long wings; especially characterized by the edge of the 
upper mandible which is furnished with two sharp points or teeth’); 
tarsus short, upper half feathered in front, the rest covered with polygonal scales, 
much larger in front than behind. Feeds on insects. Lays 3 eggs. About 
11 species of a local character, found from India to Australia, and in parts of 
Africa. 
* 24. BAZA CELEBENSIS Schl. 
Celebesian Baza. 
a. Falco (Lophotes) reinwardti, partiiii, (1) S. Miill. & Sclil., Verb. Nat. Comm. 1839—44, 
37, 38 (young Q only, from Tonclano, N. Celebes: Forsten — fide Scbl.). 
b. Baza reinwardtii, })artim, (1) Scbl, Mus. P.-B. Femes 1862, 5, Nr. 5 only. 
c. Baza magnirostris fl) Wall, (nee Gray), P. Z. S. 1862, 337; (II) Scbl., Valkv. 1866, 
40, 75, jfi. 28, f. 4 only (Celebes, Sula); (3) Wall., Pus J868, 18; (4) Wald., Tr. 
Z. S. 1872, WI, 36, pt. (Celebes, Sula); (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 56. 
d. Baza reinwardti Finscb (iiec M. & S.), New Guinea 1865, 154 (Celebes). 
Baza celebensis (Ij Scbl., llev. Acc. 1873, 135; (2) M. &Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresden 1896, 
Nr. 1, p. 7; (3) iid., ib. Nr. 2, p. 7; (4) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 162. 
e. Baza erythrothorax (1) Sbarpe, P. Z. S. 1873, 625; (II) id.. Cat. B. 1874, I, 357, pi. X, 
f. 2; (3) Briiggem., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, 46; (4) Gurney, Ibis 1880, 462, 469; 
(5) AV. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 114, 135; (6) Gurney, Diurn. B. of Prey 1884, 90. 
Figures and descriptions. Scblcgel c IZ, 7; Sbarpe e 1, e 11] Brliggemann e 3; 
Gurney e 4. 
Adult male. Above dark brown, blackish on mantle and carpal region; bead and crest 
black; face and ear-coverts dark grey; tail brown, crossed with three bands of 
darker brown — the endmost one much the broadest — and broadly tipped vdth wliite ; 
throat and chest msset-brown; a black strealf down the middle of the throat; rest 
of under surface broadly banded with darker brown and white, the markings more 
rufous on thighs and under wing-coverts; under tail-coverts whitish, blotched with 
rufous (o’, Enrekang, S. W. Central Celebes, 7. YIII. 95, P. & F. Sarasin. 
Female. Differs from the adult male in having the feathers of the head and neck black 
broadly margined with rufous, crest tipped with rufous; face and ear-coverts rufous 
like throat and breast (not dark grey); the bands on the under i)ai-ts rufous like the 
breast, only a little browner on flanks; upper 2 :>arts glossy brown, not so black as in 
the male (Q, Enrekang, 7. VUI. 95, P. & F. S.). 
We at first took this specimen and a similar one before us for the young, but 
the presence of some old Avorn feathers in the wings shows that it is at least in its 
second year. 
“Bill lead-colour, black above; feet white; iris yellow” (Wallace). 
Young. Like the female, but the banding on the under surface ill-defined. 
1) “In tlie young bird, the tooth is often single” (Blanford;. 
Meyer & Wiglesworth, Birds of Celebes (Oct. lOBi 1S97). 
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