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Northern Portion of the Malay Peninsula. 
Malay Peninsula in open country, especially in the vicinity 
of large grass plains and on the banks of the rivers. It is 
known to Malays as the Lang helalang , or grasshopper-hawk, 
a large proportion of its food consisting of big Acridiidse, 
though it not unfrequently attacks and kills birds weighing 
a great deal more than itself. 
55. Baza lophotes. 
Baza lophotes (Temm.); Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 352. 
Our men secured two examples of this rare and beautiful 
species in Trang. In the Peninsula generally it is decidedly 
a scarce bird, and the Selangor Museum possesses only two 
other specimens—one from Singapore collected many years 
ago, and another recently procured by Mr. Seimund in the 
vicinity of Kuala Lumpur. This was shot in the evening at 
the edge of the jungle perched on a lofty tree. Mr. Seimund 
particularly noted that its crest was held vertically upward. 
In Singapore Mr. Ridley states that this species is a 
migratory bird and that he has observed considerable flocks 
crossing the Botanic Gardens of that city. Mr. Ridley 
is well acquainted with the local birds and unless he 
is mistaken in his identification the observation is distinctly 
interesting. 
56. Baza jerdoni. 
Baza jerdoni (Blyth) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1893, p. 55 7 ; 
Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. iv. p. 132 (1909) ; 
Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 214 (1910) (Hainan). 
Baza sumatrensis (Lafr.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
i. p. 357, pi. xi. fig. 1 (1874) (immature). 
Baza incognita Hume, Stray Feathers, iii. p. 314 (1875) ; 
id. op. cit. viii. p. 45 (1879). 
Four specimens of this exceedingly rare Cuckoo-Falcon 
were secured in Trang and two in Langkawi. We have in ad¬ 
dition examined one from the <e East Indies/’ in the Liverpool 
Museum, four in the British Museum, including that 
collected by Wallace in Sumatra (‘ Ibis/ 1868, p. 18), the 
type of Baza incognita from Central Tenasserim (Hume 
