258 DlLRLKlDJi. 



externally glossed like the back, the primaries onh' narrowly washed 

 with the same on the outer web ; tail-feathers blue-black, externally 

 washed with steel-green, the two outermost feathers produced into 

 a long shaft, with an elongated black spatule at the end. Total 

 length 9-6 inches, culmeu 0-95, wing 5-25, tail 5"1, outer tail- 

 feathers 17"2, tarsus 0'75. 



Hah. The same as the genus. 



Purchased. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



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

 B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.J. 

 Purchased. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. 



10. DISSEMURUS. 



Type. 

 Dissemm-us, Gloger, Handb. Katurg. p. 347 (1842) .... D. paradiseus. 



Range. Indian peninsula, Ceylon, and Andaman Islands ; Indo- 

 Chinese countries ; Malayan peninsula ; Java ; Borneo. 



1. Dissemurus paradiseus. 



Le Coucou vert hupe de Siam, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 151, pi. xiv. a. fig. 1. 



Cuculus paradiseus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 17-}. 



Paradise Cuckoo, LatJt. Gen. Sijn. i. p. 529. 



Malabar Shrike, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 56, pi. 108 ; id. Gen. Hist. 



B. ii. p. 57, pi. xviii. 

 Lanius malabaricus, Lath. Lnd. Orn. i. p. G6 ; Baffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. 



xiii. p. -306. 

 Drongo a raquettes, Levaill. Ois. d^Afr. iv. p. 73, pi. 175. 

 Dicrurus platurus, Vieill. N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 588 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 287. 

 Edolius malabaricus, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 145. 

 Edolius rangoonensis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 5 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



xi. p. 172. 

 Edohus gi-andis, Gmdd, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 5 ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xi. 



p. 172 ; Bp. Cuns2). i. p. 351. 

 Chibia malabaroides, Hodgs. Lid. Rev. i. p. 325. 

 Dicrurus retifer, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 241. 

 Dicrurus rangoonensis, M'Clell. P.Z. S. 1839, p. 158 ; Ja7-d. &■ Selby, 



III. Lid. Orn. iv. pi. 38. 

 Dicrurus grandis, M'Clell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 158; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 286. 

 Edolius cristatellus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 171. 

 Edolius dentirosti'is, A. Hay, ajmd Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 121. 

 Edolius orissae, A. Hay, ajmd Jerd. I. c. 



Dicrurus paradiseus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 286 ; Pelz. Voy. Novara, 

 Vog. p. 82 : Horsf. &■ Moure, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 155 : 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 287. 

 Dicrurus malabaricus. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 286 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. 

 p. 296; Horsf. %■ Mom'e, Cat. B. Mm. E.I. Co. i. p. 157; Gray, 

 Ha)ul-l.B.i:f.28Q. 

 Edolius malabaroides, Bp^ Consp. i. p. 350. 



