Cebu (Bourns & Worcester); Luzon (Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Everett, Celestino, Goodfellow); Mindoro (McGregor); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen); Romblon (McGregor); Samar (Whitehead); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester); Sulu (Platen, Bourns & Worcester); Tablas (Celestino). Indian and Malay Peninsulas, Indo-Chinese countries, Ceylon, Greater Sunda Islands.

Adult.—Upper parts brown, many of the feathers white basally; top of head, neck, and sides of neck light brown with heavy black shaft-lines; long crest-feathers black; scale-like feathers of lores and side of head ashy gray; chin, throat, and breast white with black shaft-lines and many feathers with long wide terminal spots of black or dark brown on the throat, forming a median and two lateral stripes; abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts light brown, barred with white; under surface of primaries and secondaries light gray, banded with dark brown, the basal bars broken; axillars and wing-lining tawny-brown, the latter mottled with white; tail from above light brown, with five or six wide bars of dark brown; from below the tail is light gray, crossed by dark brown bars. Bill black, its base bluish; iris bright yellow; legs dull yellow; nails black. A male from Mindoro is 570 in length; wing, 390; tail, 285; culmen from base, 33; tarsus, 45; middle toe with claw, 58.

A breeding female, taken in Mindoro, February 19, 1905, is 610 in length; wing, 395; tail, 290; culmen from base, 36; tarsus, 44.

Genus BAZA Hodgson, 1836.

Bill stout, culmen well curved; cutting edge with two teeth, in young birds there is often a single tooth; cere small; nostrils narrow, slightly oblique; crest long and narrow; wing moderate, third or fourth quill longest; tail square; tarsus short, feathered in front for half its length, naked part reticulate. The key is based on the plumage of the young females; the adult of leucopais is unknown.

Species.
194. BAZA MAGNIROSTRIS Gray.
LARGE-BILLED BAZA.