Baza magnirostris Gray, Cat. Acciptr. Brit. Mus. (1844), 19;
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 356, pl. 10, fig. 1;
Hand-List (1899), 1, 271; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 44.
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.)