ACCIPITRES. 
FALCONIM. 
FALCONIN/E. 
Genus BAZA. 
Bill stout, curved rapidly from the base of the cere ; tip much hooked, and notched with a 
double tooth ; cere but slightly advanced. Nostrils linear, oblique, covered as in Pernis by the 
superlying membrane. Wings moderate, rounded, with the 4th quill the longest, and the 1st 
subequal to the secondaries. Tail moderately long, much exceeding the closed wings. Tarsus 
short, the front and sides plumed for more than half its length ; the remainder covered through- 
out with reticulate scales. Middle toe subequal to the tarsus; lateral toes nearly equal ; the 
whole covered with bony transverse scales. Claws rather straight, the inner less than the middle. 
Head with an elongated occipital crest. 
BAZA CEYLONENSIS. 
(THE CEYLONESE CRESTED FALCON.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon ?) 
Baza ceylonensis , Legge, Str. Feath. 1876, vol. iv. p. 202 ; Whyte, ibid. 1877, p. 202. 
Kimilis B. magnirostri sed crista nigra late albo terminat&, secundariis late albo terminaliter marginatis : rectrieibus 
4-fasciatis, plagii subterminaliter minore quam fascia apicalis brunnea : subtus fulvescenti-brunneo nee rafescenti 
transfasciata : gutture fulvescenti nec einereo lavato. 
Adult. The following are the measurements of the two type specimens described by me loc. cit., the larger of which is 
presumed to be a female Length to front of cere (from skin) 16-5 and 1 6 - 8 ; eulmen from cere l'Ol and 1'03 ; 
wing 11*7 and 12’0; tail 7'5 and 8*0 ; tarsus 1*5 and 1*5; middle toe 1‘35 and 1'45 ; claw (straight) 065 
and 068 ; height of bill at cere 04 and 0-5 ; tarsus feathered to 0-5 from the root of the middle toe. 
Iris yellow ; bill blackish leaden, lower mandible pale at base ; cere (judging from the skin) dusky plumbeous ; legs and 
feet yellow ; claws plumbeous, pale at base. 
Male. Back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and centres of the feathers on the hind neck and head deep brown, paling 
on the rump slightly, and with a strong purple sheen on the mantle as well as on the under-mentioned caudal 
bars ; the feathers of the back with perceptibly pale edgings, those of the head and hind neck broadly margined 
with pale tawny, the superciliary region being entirely of this colour, the forehead slightly darker with the shafts 
of the feathers blackish ; crest If inch in length, black, conspicuously tipped with white; greater secondary-coverts 
and tertials paler brown than the scapulars, many of the feathers tipped whitish, primaries and secondaries smoky 
brown, the latter and the inner primaries deeply tipped with white, and the whole crossed with blackish bars, the 
ulterior one being terminal, inner edges of the primaries white on the lighter portion of the feather ; tail drab- 
brown, pale-tipped, a broad subterminal baud of purplish black, and three narrower of the same, the basal one 
hidden beneath the coverts. 
Lores and a stripe behind the eye blackish brown ; cheeks and ear-coverts slate-grey, with dark shafts ; chin and throat 
buff, the feathers down the centre with blackish shaft-stripes ; chest and sides of the fore-neck almost uniform 
tawny cinereous, under surface from the chest, with the under wing-coverts and lower surface of the basal portion 
