Ordet' FALCONIFORMES 
No. 308. 
Family AQTJILIDM. 
LOPHASTUR SUBCRISTATUS. 
CRESTED HAWK. 
(Plate 251.)* 
Lepidogenys SUBCRISTATUS Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. in.,^pl. 46, ApL, 1838 : New 
South Wales. 
Lejndogenys svhcristatus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. m., ApL, 1838 ; id., Proo. ZooL 
Soc. (Bond.) 1837, p. 140, Dec. 1838; id., Birds Austr., Vol. L, pi. 25, 1848; 
Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 146, 1913. 
Bam subcristata Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 23, 1845 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. L, p. 56, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.) 1867, p. 393 (Q.) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I,, p. 357, 1874 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.) 1875, 
p. 579 (Q.) ; id., Cat. Austr. Accip., p. 45, 1876 ; id., Proc. Binn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; Masters, ib., p. 269 (N.T.) ; Gurney, Ibis 1880, p. 462 ; 
id., Bist Dium. Birds Prey, p. 89, 1884 ; Ramsay, Tab. Bist Austr. Birds, p. 1, 
1888 ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. V., p. 15, 1889 (Q.) ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 15, 1890 ; id., Aust. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 49, 1898 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 2, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 29, 1901 ; Bemey, Emu, Vol. V., p. 18, 1905 (Q.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
2nd Ed., p. 2, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 42, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, 
Vol. XI., p. 22, 1911 (N.Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 255, 
1912 ; Mathews, Bist Birds Austr., p. 110, 1913. 
Aviceda subcristata Bafresnaye, Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 127. 
Pernis subcristatus Kaup, Isis 1847, p. 339. 
Bam subcristata subcristata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 251, 1912. 
Bam subcristata queenslandica Mathews, ib., Mackay, Queensland. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Queensland ; Northern Territory. 
Adult male. Middle of back and scapulars brown with white bases to the feathem above 
and below ; upper wing-coverts dark slate colour, as also the bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts and quiUs, paler on the inner webs of the latter with dark cross- 
bands and white edges to the tips of the primaries ; lower back, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts dark slate-grey ; tail also slate-grey narrowly barred with black 
towards the base and a broad subapical band of the same colour with white 
* The Plate is lettered Baza subcristata. 
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