Luzon (Cuming); Mindanao (Platen, Goodfellow).

“Nearly adult female.—Crown and long occipital crest black; feathers over eye, as well as the sides and back of the neck tawny rufous, the latter spotted with black; sides of face grayish washed with rufous; upper surface of body brown, with a gloss of purplish brown, some of the feathers also shaded with greenish in certain lights; quills brown, tipped with whitish, barred with purplish brown, the secondaries very much paler brown, against which the bands of darker brown contrast strongly, especially the subterminal one, which has a distinct purplish gloss; under surface of quills grayish white, with dark brown bands, pure white near the base; tail brown, tipped with whity brown, and crossed by three bands of dark purplish brown, the subterminal one being very broad, and glossed with greenish; under surface of tail grayish white, like that of the wings, the subterminal band distinctly marked, the basal ones very faintly, excepting on the outermost feathers, which have a patch of dark brown on the outer web, extending on to the inner one also; under surface of body whitish, broadly streaked on sides of throat and chest, banded on breast, and spotted on under tail-coverts with pale rufous, darker and more inclining to rufous-brown on flanks, sides of body, and axillars; down the center of the throat extending to the fore neck, a broad black streak; under wing-coverts buffy white, spotted with pale rufous, the lower ones barred with this color. Bill horn-black, browner on lower mandible; feet yellow. Length, 444; culmen, 38; wing, 312; tail, 206; tarsus, 38.

“Adult male (type).—Another specimen in the national collection (British Museum) differs from the foregoing in not having so stout a bill, in the sides of the face being more conspicuously gray, this shade also extending over the throat and breast, the former of which is narrowly streaked with grayish down the center; the crown of the head is blackish, feathers of the forehead being edged with rufous; the sides and hind part of the neck similarly marked, producing a striped appearance; occipital crest black, with a narrow white tip to one or two of the feathers; the bands on the breast very broad and pale rufous. Length, 389; culmen, 34; wing, 292; tail, 190; tarsus, 38. This would apparently be the adult male, and the other perhaps a female not quite adult.” (Sharpe.)

195. BAZA LEUCOPAIS Sharpe.
WHITEHEAD’S BAZA.

Palawan (Whitehead); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Bourns & Worcester).

“Young female.—General color above brown, with whitish brown margins to the feathers; lesser wing-coverts brown, the inner ones rufous, with brown centers; median and greater coverts pale rufous, white externally toward the ends and round the tips; alula dark brown, externally rufous; primary-coverts uniform dark brown; quills dark brown fringed with white round the ends, and crossed with blackish brown bars, four in number, one subterminal; secondaries paler brown, externally rufous; upper tail-coverts tawny-rufous, edged with white and with dark brown centers; tail-feathers dark brown, narrowly fringed with white at the ends, and crossed with blackish bands, the subterminal one very broad, but not nearly so wide as the preceding interspace; a crest of white feathers, the long ones freckled with brown; head, nape, and hind neck, lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, and entire under surface of body pure white, slightly washed with rufous on the head and hind neck; the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts washed with creamy buff; the sides of the body and flanks with slight indications of spots of pale tawny buff; under wing-coverts and axillars like the breast; quills below ashy gray, with blackish bars on the primaries. Length, 394; culmen, 29; wing, 274; tail, 178; tarsus, 35.

“The typical [=type] specimen, though manifestly immature, differs thoroughly from the young of B. sumatrensis, and I feel sure that the adult bird, when discovered, will be markedly distinct.” (Sharpe.)