5. BTTCHANGA. 245 



Sdater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 218 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 287 ; Salvad. 



Ucc. Born. p. 153. , 

 Dicrurus picinus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 352 (e.r Miill. MS. in Mas. Luyd.) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 285 ; Walden, B. Burm. p. 128. 

 Chaptia malayana, Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 45 (lapsu). 



Adult mrde. Above brilliant metallic greenisb black, continued 

 over the entire back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; wings resembling 

 the back, the primaries black, washed externally with metallic 

 colour ; tail purplish black, the outer webs dull metallic, the two 

 centre feathers entirely so ; nasal bristles, lores, and sides of face 

 deep black ; throat and entire breast "spangled with metallic green, 

 like the head, the abdomen and flanks greyish black, with only a 

 very slight greenish gloss ; under wing-coverts black, washed with 

 purple ; under surface of quills black ; bill and feet black ; iris dark 

 blood-red. Total length 8-3 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 4-5, tail 4-1, 

 tarsus 0-6. 



Hub. Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



a. c? ad. sk. Mount Ophu-, Malacca. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Borneo. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Sarawak. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



d. (S ad. sk. Jambusan, Sept. 15, 1874. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



5. BUCHANGA. „ 



Tj-pe. 



BucLanga, Hodgs. Lid. Rev. i. p. 326 (1837) B. macrocerca. 



Musicus, Reichenh. Syst. Av. lxxx\-iii. fig. 9 (1850) . . B. assimilis. 



Range. The whole of Africa ; India and Ceylon ; Indo-Chinese 

 region, China and Japan, Formosa, Hainan ; Malayan peninsula, 

 Java, Flores, Lombock ; Mayotte. 



Key to the Species. 



of 

 I of , 



assijiiilis, p. 247. 



a. Under tail-coverts deep black, with a gloss of 



steel-green, exactly like the under sm-face of i > . _ qir 

 tlie body Jm'J/k n.': 



a '. TaU moderately long, not exceeding 7 inches ; 



plumage blue-black. 

 b'. Tail very long, 7'6 inches ; plumage greenish 



black . tcaldeni, p. 253. 



. Under tail-coverts slaty grey. 

 c'. With a steel-green gloss on the tail-feathers Jongicaudata, p. 249. 



d'. With an ashy grey shade on the tail-feathers •^ , o-i ' 



J ^ ■^ \pyrrhops, p. 2ol. 



, Under tail-coverts white. 

 e'. General colour above light grey; lores, fea- 

 thers round the eye, and cheeks white.. . . . leucogenys, p. 251, 

 f. General colour above glossy greenish black ; 

 entire face blackish, like the throat. 



a". Abdomen and under tail-coverts white.. J '['^f ^'f^^. P- 252. 



I tusttlarm, p. zoo. 

 b". Vent and imder tail-coverts only white . . leiicopyyialis. p. 253. 



