. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 360 FALCONIDJi:. 10. Saza mfa. Baza reinwardtii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 343. Baza rufa, Schl. Tog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pp. 41, 78, pi. 27. fig. 4, pi. 28. figs. 1-3 (1866); Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 8; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 25 (1869). Adult. Head all round, neck, and throat clear slaty grey, lighter on the forehead, darker on the hind head and crest, which incKne to blackish; interscapulary region and â wing-coverts deep slaty black, Tvith a slight greenish gloss; scapulars and some of the inner secondaries deep chocolate-brown ; upper tail-coverts
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 360 FALCONIDJi:. 10. Saza mfa. Baza reinwardtii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 343. Baza rufa, Schl. Tog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pp. 41, 78, pi. 27. fig. 4, pi. 28. figs. 1-3 (1866); Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 8; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 25 (1869). Adult. Head all round, neck, and throat clear slaty grey, lighter on the forehead, darker on the hind head and crest, which incKne to blackish; interscapulary region and â wing-coverts deep slaty black, Tvith a slight greenish gloss; scapulars and some of the inner secondaries deep chocolate-brown ; upper tail-coverts brownish, the lower ones slaty black; quills deep slaty brown above, pale whitish slaty below, banded on both surfaces with black ; tail clearer slaty grey, with three bands of black, the subterminal one exceedingly broad and occupying nearly a quarter of the tail, under surface whitish, the bands faintly indicated and reduced on the outer feathers to a black patch on the outer web just extending on to the inner one ; chest rufous, slightly washed with greyish ; rest of under surface bright rufous, almost chestnut, with faintly indicated cross bars of fulvous, some of the intermediate chestnut bars having also a blackish shade ; thighs and under tail-coverts deep rufous, unbarred ; under wing-coverts chestnut, the axillai'ies paler and barred with dusky black ; cere lead-colour ; bill black, lead-colour at base ; feet bluish white; iris yellow. Total length 17 inches, culmen 1*2, wing 12-3, tail 7'8, tarsus 1'55. Hah. Batchian, Gilolo, Ternate, Tidore, Morty. a. Ad. st. Gilolo. Purchased. h, c. S ad. sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [ d. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 69. HARPAGUS. rj^ Harpagus, Vigors, Zool. Jmirn. i. p. 338 (1824) H. diodon. Bidens, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 15 (1824) H. bidentatus. Diodon, Less. Traite, p. 95 (1831) H. bidentatus. Diplodon, Nitzsch, Pteryl p. 93 (1840) H. Bill and foot of Harpagus diodo7i. Range. Central America
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