166 BULLETIN 186, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS DICRUROIDES (Hodgsen) 



Indian Drongo Cuckoo 



Pseudornis Dicruroides Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soe. Bengal, vol. 8, 1839, pp. 136- 



137 (Nepal). 

 Surmculus luguhris, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 232 



(listed). 

 Surniculus lugubris dicruroides, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. 



Handl., 1916, p. 102 (Ban Mae Na) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 592 ("Throughout the 



whole of Siam"). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 159 



(Doi Suthep) ; 1936, p. 88 (Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep). 



This species seems to be merely a summer visitor to the North. At 

 Chiang Mai and on Doi Suthep it has been found only from March 

 to September. Gyldenstolpe's specimen from Ban Mae Na was taken 

 June 24. Eisenhofer sent to Stockholm a bird from Pha Hing, May 

 11, and another, without date, from Khun Tan. I have it from Ban 

 Tha Wang Luang, May 24; from Ban Huai Thae, June 12; and from 

 Wiang Pa Pao, August 3. 



I found the drongo cuckoo in open forest and in bamboo from the 

 plains to about 4,000 feet. It is a tame species, often perching beside 

 or above a trail and permitting close observation. The resemblance 

 to the common bronzed drongo is so striking that, particularly within 

 the drongo's range, the true identity of the cuckoo is probably often 

 unrecognized. The latter's song sounds rather like that of the plain- 

 tive cuckoo but is in an ascending scale. 



All my specimens are immature, with numerous white spots and 

 with many unglossed blackish-brown feathers both above and below. 



A male had the irides brown ; the orbital skin gray ; the bill black ; 

 the feet and toes slate ; the claws black. 



The adult is black with a steel-blue gloss, but it has the thighs (and 

 usually a nuchal patch) pure white and the under tail coverts and the 

 outermost rectrices narrowly banded with white. The immature is 

 similar but is less glossed and has the head, nape, back, upper wing 

 coverts and tail coverts, and entire underparts more or less profusely 

 marked with small white dots. 



EUDYNAMYS SCOLOPACEA CHINENSIS Cabanis and Heine 



Chinese Koel 



E[udynamis] chinensis Cabanis and Heine, Museum Heineanum, Theil 4, Heft 1, 



1862-1863 [=1864], p. 52, footnote (Canton, China). 

 Eudynamis honorata, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, 



p. 58 (Ban Huai Horn) ; Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 233 (listed). 

 Eudynamis orientalis malayana, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. 

 Handl., 1916, p. 103 (Pang Hua Phong, Khun Tan) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 594 

 ("Throughout the whole country"). 

 Eudynamis scolopaceus malayanus, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1931, p. 160 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 88 (Chiang Mai). 



