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the back, the primaries only near the base ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail rather lighter grey than the back, gradually inclining to blackish 

 at the tips and on the outermost feathers ; nasal bristles black ; 

 lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts pure white ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body light pearly grey, shading off into pure 

 white on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 light grey, with whitish edgings; bill and legs black; iris red. 

 Total length 10-2 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 5-4, tail 4-5, to tip of 

 outer feather 5-6, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Malacca, ranging through the Indo-Chinese region to China 

 and Japan. 



a. Ad. sk. [Malacca.] Purchased. 



b. Imm. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Peuang. Purchased. 



(/, e. Ad. sk. Teuasserim. J. C. D. Packman,Esq. [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Foocbow, June 1, 1875. R. Swinhoe, E.sq. [C.]. 



6. Buchanga caerulescens. 



The Fork-tailed Indian Butcher-bird, Edwards, B. ii. p. 50, pi. 56. 



La Pie-Grieche a queue fourchue de Bengale, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 189. 



Lanius caerulescens, Linn. S. N. i. p. 1.34 ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 297. 



Lanius cteruleus, Milll. S. N. Suppl. p. 72. 



Le Fingah, Buff. H. N. Ois. i. p. 108. 



Lanius fingah, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 291. 



Dicrurus cterulescens, Vieill. N'. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 587 ; Jerd. 



Madr. Journ. x. p. 239 ; Bli/th, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 47 ; 



id. J. A. S. B. XV. p. 298 ; Grarj, Gen. B'. i. p. 286 ; Bli/th, Cat. 



B. Mm. A. S. B. p. 203 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 351 ; Horsf. ^ Moore, 



Cat. B. Mas. B.I. Co. i. p. 154; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 4.32; Ball, 



S. F. 1874, p. 403. 

 Drongo cjerulescens, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 573. 

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

 Dicrurus cferuleus, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 238; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 285. 



Adult. General colour above slaty grey, with a slight metallic 

 gloss of steel blue, more apparent on the head, which is rather darker 

 thau the back ; rump and upper tail-coverts clearer grey than the 

 back ; wings deep ashy brown, the coverts all glossed with the same 

 slightly metallic steel-blue as the back ; quiUs glossed only on the 

 outer web, and dusky at tips ; the inner secondaries entirely glossy ; 

 tail ashy brown, only very faintly glossed with steel-blue, the 

 feathers rather more dusky towards their tips ; lores and frontal 

 plumes blackish ; sides of face, throat, and chest ashy brown, 

 glossed with steel-blue on the sides of the neck and sides of the 

 upper breast ; rest of the under surface, from the breast downwards, 

 and including the under tail-coverts, white, the flanks somewhat 

 washed with greyish ; thighs glossy black ; under wing-coverts deep 

 ashy brown like the breast, with a slight metallic gloss ; bill and 

 legs black ; iris lake-red. Total length 9-6 inches, culmen 0-95, 

 wing 5-05, tail 3-65, to tip of outer feather 5, tarsus U-8. 

 Uah. India. 



