246 D1CRURIDJ5. 



1. Buchanga atra. 



Le Drongolon, Levaill. Ois. (VAfr. iii. pi. 174. 



Muscicapa atra, Hermann, Ohs. Zool. p. 208. 



Dicnirus inacrocercus, I'icill. N. Diet. ix. p. 588 ; Jerd. Madr. Joiirn. 



xiii. pt. 2, p. 121 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 298; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 286; id. Cut. Mam'm. S)C. Nepal Coll. Hndgs. p. 98; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 351 ; Jerd. B. Ltd. i. p. 427 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 286. 

 Edolius forficatus, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 144. 

 Muscicapa biloba, Licht. Verz. Duiihl. p. 52. 

 Dicnirus indicus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 139 (e.f Levaill.) ; Hodgs. 



Asiat. Research, xiii. p. 21, cum jig. 

 Dicrurua balicassius, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 86 (nee i.) ; Jerd. Madr. 



Journ. X. p. 238; 3I-Clell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 158 ; Blijth, J. A. S. B. 



xi. p. 175. 

 Buchanga albirictus, Hodgs. Lid. Rev. i. p. 32G ; Hume, S. F. 1873, 



p. 178 ; Adam, t. c. p. 377 ; Ball, S. F. 1874,' p. 402; Hume, t. c. 



p. 474. 

 Dicrurus minor, Blyth, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 129 ; id. Cat. 



B. Mus. A. S. B'. p. xxii ; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 305. 

 Edolius fingah, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 800. 

 Dicrurus fingah, Hodgs. in Gray^s Zool. Misc. p. 84. 

 Dicrurus longus. Bp. Consp. i. p. 352 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E.I. Co. i. p. 152. 

 Dicrurus liimalayeusis, Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 200 (descr. nulla) : Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 286. 

 Dicrurus albirictus. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 285 ; Hume, S. F. 1875, 



p. 97. 

 Dicrurus cathoecus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 377. 

 Buchanga minor, Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 438. 

 Buchanga cathceca, Waldcn, B. Burm. p. 130. 



Adult. General colour above glossy blue-black, the lesser and 

 median wing-coverts uniform with the back ; greater and primary- 

 coverts, as well as the inner secondaries, glossed with greenish, the 

 primaries lighter brown, dusky at tip ; lores, sides of face, and under 

 surface of body black, with not quite so much metallic gloss as on 

 the upper surface, and with somewhat of a greenish o&st; under 

 wing-coverts glossy black, resembling the breast ; biU and feet 

 black ; iris red. Total length 11 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 5-4, tail 

 4"3, to tip of outer feather 6-2, tarsus 0*9. 



Ohs. In the Museum there are at present no Javan specimens ; 

 but Lord Tweeddale considers the Drongos from this island distinct, 

 though he does not say how they differ. His latest conclusions (B. 

 Burm. p. 129) are given in the following sentence: — "Muscicapa 

 ater is Hermann's title for the South-Indian bird, which is inva- 

 riably smaller than that of Northern and Eastern India. D. macro- 

 cercus, Vieillot, = £^. longus, Temm., pertains to the Javan bird alone, 

 a distinct form. Some Burman examples possess, while others 

 want, the white rictal spot, an unstable character among the conti- 

 nental races, but never found, as far as at present recorded, in B. 

 7nacrocerca or in B. cathceca. Adult Tonghoo birds agree best in the 

 relative proportions of the rectrices with B. cathceca." I have seen 

 no characters published to enable me to separate Buchanga longa 

 (Temm.), of Java (N.B. I cannot understand why Vieillot's name of 



