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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvi. 



Length, 168-172; wing, 78-80; tail, 75-76; bill, from gape, 17 mm. 

 "■Apparent! V not common. V)ut several that were shot were lost in the 

 dense underbrush."' 



P. igneus has been recorded from Nias, '^ 



Family DICRURID^. 



DISSEMUKUS BRACHYPHORUS (Bonaparte). 



Eldolius'] hrachyphorus "Temm." Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium, I, 1850, p. 

 351 (Borneo). 



Ten specimens, from Loh Sidoh Bay, Simalur, Babi, and Lasia, those 

 from the last-named island having longei* tails and wings than the 

 others. The dimensions of this series are given below: 



Measurements of Dissemurus brachyphorua. 



"Bill, from gape. 



The Simalur birds have less of a greenish gloss than those from Loh 

 Sidoh Bay and the Flat Islands, but otherwise the color is about 

 the same. In length of wing the birds from Babi and Lasia are 

 approached and even exceeded by others from widely different locali- 

 ties, but no specimens in our series (from the Natunas and Anambas; 

 Pulo Tioman; Lankawi; Lingga, etc.) have tails quite as long as these 

 Flat Islands examples. 



"Common in the forest" on Simalur; also "common" on Babi, and 

 "common, apparently larger than that of Simalur" on Lasia. 



BUCHANGA ATRA (Hermann). 



Mtscicopa atra Hermann, Obs. Zool., March, 1804, p. 208 (Tranquebaria). 



One adult male, from Tapanuli Bay. Length, 279; wing, 142; tail, 

 121 mm. 



BUCHANGA CINERACEA (Horsfield). 



Edolius cineraceus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XIII, Pt. 1, May, 1821, 

 p. 145 (Java). 



Six adults, from Simalur, where it was "common about clearings, 

 sitting on dead trees. Less common in forest." Length, 257-280 mm. 



"Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus., XVIII, p. 177. 



