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the under surface. It is not fully adult. It differs from Baza rufa by the colour 
of the chest — all grey. By its head, throat, and chest it resembles B. timorlao- 
ensis Meyer, but the banding below is different. Mr. Hartert has most kindly 
sent us particulars about the'\Djampea specimen: “after comparing it with the 
large series in the British Museum I had not the slightest hesitation in referrin<r 
it to B. reinwardti. In my Djampea skin the bars below are also red -brown 
with a grey shade or sometimes even a distinct grey band along the upjDer margin, 
but we have one from M aigiou in which these bands are of an even purer red- 
brown. The terminal band on the tail is broader than in some of our New 
Guinea specimens, narrower than in others. The wing of our bird is 322 mm. 
Altogether my bird has the darkest under tail-coverts of all in the Thing Museum. 
At present I can see no reason for sejiarating it even subspecifically from B. rein- 
wardti, but it would be valuable to get skins from Timor, Flores etc., to see 
whether perhaps the ‘Austro -Malayan’ birds differ from those of the Papuan 
Islands”. 
In the Solomon Islands — Baza gurneyi Bams.j in New Britain — B. hismarcki 
Sharpe, and in Timorlaut — B. timorlaoensis Meyer, the adult of which is still 
unknown, have been marked off as distinct from B. reinwardti. B. suhcristata 
Gould of Australia is also nearly allied, and B. rufa Schl. of the Halmahera- 
group is likely to cause trouble. The last seems to be distinguishable by its 
having the chest grey washed with rufous, and the under parts more dee])ly 
stained with that colour, as well as having the bands thereon red-brown. 
As is pointed out under B. celebensis the habitat of B. reinwardti was origi- 
nally stated to be Celebes, and the error was not discovered till Schlegel wrote 
his “Valkvogels” in 1866. This has given rise to much error and mislabelling. 
Dr. Finsch in his list of birds in “New Guinea” 1865, 154 indicated Celebes as 
a locality of the species, but was obviously misled by previous writings and the 
wrongly labelled specimens in the I.eyden Museum. No further proof of the 
occurrence of the species in Celebes can be drawn from three examples of 
unknown origin but included among a lot of Celebesian birdskins — examined 
by Prof. W. Bias i us [6). There is no certain evidence that this species has 
ever occurred in Celebes. 
Baza rufa Schl. 
A specimen of this Moluccan species in the Dresden Museum, marked as 
having come from Celebes (Nr. 2197) is mentioned by Meyer, Z. ges. Orn. 1884, 
272. An immature specimen of the same sjiecies is similarly labelled “Celebes” 
(Nr. 2196). Both were purchased prior to 1874 of Frank of Amsterdam, and 
bear the name of no collector, but only labels affixed by that dealer, determi- 
ning them simply as “B. remwardtii, Celebes”. This indicates that they were 
bought of Frank who got his determinations from the Leyden Museum before 
