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DICRURIDJi:. 



black, with a crest of long hairs springing from the base of the fore- 

 head and falling over the nape ; sides of face purplish black ; head 

 and sides of neck ornamented with metallic steel-green feathers, 

 those on the last-named part elongated and somewhat lanceolate ; 

 plumes of the throat and chest also with metallic steel-green tips, 

 giving a spangled appearance ; under tail-coverts glossed with green, 

 as also the edge of the wing, the rest of the iinder wing-coverts 

 being coloured like the breast ; upper surface of the wing metallic 

 bronzy green ; the primaries purplish black, as also the greater por- 

 tion of the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts glossy steel-greon ; tail- 

 feathers purplish black, steel-green on the outer webs, the centre 

 feathers entirely glossed with the latter colour, the two outer 

 feathers recurved inwards at the tips ; bill and legs black ; iris 

 reddish brown. Total length 13 inches, culmen l"5u, wing 6-95, 

 tail 6-5, tarsus 1. 



Yoimr/. Dusky blackish, without any of the metallic feathers ; 

 wings glossy, but not so bright as in the adults ; tail also less 

 glossy than in the adult ; under wing-coverts tijiped with white. 



Obs. C. brevirostris, from China, does not seem to me a distinct 

 species, the differences of colour noticed by Dr. Cabanis not holding 

 good ; the bill is shorter than in Nepal specimens, measuring in a 

 Chinese example before me 1'45 inch, but two specimens from the 

 N.W. Himalayas have it exactly of this length also. 



Head of Chibia hottentotta. 



Hah. India, ranging through Assam and Burmah to China. 



a. Ad. St. 



b, c. Ad. sk. 

 d-g. Ad. sk. 

 h. Juv. sk. 

 i. Ad. sk. 



h. $ ad. sk. 



India. 



N.W. Himalayas. 



Nepal. 



Nepal. 



N. China. 



Ningpo, Sept. 27, 1875. 



Capt. Honeywood [P.]. 

 Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Mr. Fortime. 

 Shanghai Museum [P.]. 



2. Chibia bracteata. 



Dicrurus balicassius, Vig. fy Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 211 {nee 



Linn.). « 



Dicrurus bracteatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 132 ; id. B. Austr. fol. 



