Three new bands in Ta-174 have been identified by using the Gd-160(F-1
9,5n) reaction at beam energies of 87 MeV and 96 MeV. Nilsson configur
ations are assigned to these bands. In the 9/2(-) [514](p)+5/2(-)[512]
(n) band, the AB neutron crossing occurs at: a rotational frequency of
0.30 MeV. This is indicative of the disappearance of the evidence for
a reduction in neutron pair correlations.