200 DICHIKID.K. 



steel-green as the back ; sidea of fuce and under surface of body 

 greyish, with a slight bluish gloss on the sides of the neck and chest, 

 the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts dull greyish black ; bill 

 and feet black ; iris brownish red. Total length 11-6 inches, cul- 

 men 1, wing 5-6, tail 4, outer tail-feathers 6-7, tarsus 0-8. 

 Hab. India and Ceylon. 



a. S ad. sk. Colombo, Ceylon, Jan. Capt. Vincent Legge, R.A. 



17, 1872. [P.]. 



6, c. Ad. sk. Madras. Rev. H. H. Baber [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Madi-as. Dr. Jevdon [P.]. 



Ad. sk. Kamptee, C. P. Dr. B. Ilinde [P.]. 



f-k. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. I. 



"" pt. Stackhouse Pinwill 

 fp.]. 



I, 7/i. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinw 



fp.]. 

 n. Ad. sk. Ladakh. Purchased 



4. Buchanga cineracea. 



Edolius cineraceus, Ilorsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 145. 



Dicrurus leucophseus Gniy^ Gen. B. i. p. 287 {nee V.) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 352; Horsf. ^- 3Ioore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 155. 

 Dicrurus intermedius, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 299 ; id. Cat. B. Mm. 



A. S. B. p. 203. 

 Dicrurus cinerascens. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 287. 

 Dicrurus cineraceus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 352 ; ITorsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. 



Mvs. E.I. Co. i. p. loo. 

 Buchanga wallacii, Walden, Ann. S^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) v. p. 220. 

 Buchanga mouboti, Wakhii, Ann. Sf- Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) v. p. 220 ; 



Swinh. R Z. S. 1870, p. 245 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 378. 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey, slightly glossy ; wing- 

 coverts iiniform with the back, the greater and primary-coverts with 

 a faint subterminal shade of dusky, visible in certain lights ; quills 

 blackish, the primaries washed with grey near the base of the outer 

 web ; the secondaries externally grey, the innermost entirely of 

 that colour ; tail-feathers clear grey, with black shafts, the outer 

 feathers rather more dusky blackish, the grey shade being contiued 

 to the inner web ; nasal plumes blackish ; lores and feathers in 

 front of the eye dusky blackish ; cheeks and ear-coverts rather more 

 dingy ashv grey, and resembling more the shade of the throat ; rest 

 of under surface ashy grey, but rather duskier than the back, and 

 only glossed on the breast ; under wing-coverts resembling the 

 breast ; under tail-coverts rather lighter grey than the abdomen, 

 but in no way whitish. Total length 10 inches, culmen 1, wing 

 5-05, tail 5-1, tarsus 0-7. 



Ohs. On comparing Lombock specimens {B. ivaVacii, Walden) 

 with tyjncal B. cineracea from West Java, I cannot find any specific 

 differences ; nor can I distinguish between B. intermedia and B. 

 cineracea, judging from the few specimens I have compared. Mr. 

 Hume (S. P. 1875, pp. 98-100) would unite B. pyrrhops and B. 

 intermedia to B. hnyicandata, as he has examples of all three forms 

 from Dacca, where "they may be shot together off the same tree." 

 Now although it is possible that at Dacca the ranges of these races 



