THE BIEDS OF AUSTKALIA. 
having been previously employed, I have been induced to adopt the generic 
title proposed by Mr. J. E. Gray in its stead. The form is somewhat allied 
to Perms.” 
This prohibits the recognition of Lepidogenys as anything else but a 
substitute name for Lophotes Lesson, and it thus becomes a synonym 
of Baza. 
When Blyth met with a form of this group, being well acquainted with 
Bazay he did not hesitate to separate it generically, calling the species which 
was also new to him Lophastur jerdoni. This name was ranked as a synonym 
of “ Bam ” reinwardti Muller by Sharpe, but this was erroneous, and Blyth’s 
form has since been recognised. It undoubtedly belongs to the same group 
as suhcristata, and thus Blyth’s name is available. 
The bill is comparatively short and sharply hooked, with a long overhanging 
point succeeded by a notch and two tooth-like projections quite unlike the 
gentle sinuation seen on the lower edges of the upper mandible of aU the 
preceding genera : the lower mandible is somewhat spoon-shaped, with 
truncate square end and saw-like projections on the anterior half of the edges. 
The cere is small and the nostril is practically closed, being overhung by an 
operculum, so that only a linear opening is seen. The head bears an occipital 
crest of a few feathers. 
The wing is long with the fourth primary longest, the third slightly 
shorter and equal to the fifth, while the second is longer than the sixth, the 
first about equal to the seventh. 
The tad is long and square, almost exactly two-thirds the length of the 
wing. 
The legs are short and half-feathered at front, and the scaling is 
practically all reticulate, a slightly larger row on the front being figured as 
transverse scutes by Gould. 
According to the preceding notes, I would subdivide Bam Auct. into four 
divisions, which I here consider genera, and criticism must come from the 
osteologist. 
These four genera are : 
Aviceda Swainson .. cuculoides and verreauxi. 
Nesobam Mathews . . madagascariensis. 
Baza Hodgson . . leuphotes. 
Lophastur Blyth . . jerdoniy subcristata, etc. 
It will be noted that the name of the type of Bam is written leuphotes 
Dumont, not lophotes Temminck. This is due to the examination of the Diet. 
Sci. Nat. (Levrault), full particulars of which have been published in the 
Austral Avian Recordy Vol. III., pp. 5-20, June 30, 1915. On p. 5 it was 
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