to ' The Birds of India.' 121 



found to extend southwards through Chittagong to Arrakau ; 

 and it was probably seeing specimens of this race that caused 

 Blyth to remark that Dicrurus cineraceus, Horsfield, in advan- 

 cing northwards from the Malayan peninsula, appears to grade 

 into D. longicaudatus. 



I may here remark that Lord Walden considers Blyth's Z>. 

 intermedins, placed as a synonym of D. longicaudatus, to be a 

 distinct race, from Burmah. 



283. Bhringa remifer. 



One measured in the flesh was 10^ inches to the end of the 

 central tail-feathers, extent 17, wing 5^. From later observa- 

 tions I am now somewhat doubtful of the lengthened outer rec- 

 trices being a seasonal distinction, as I found the young feathers 

 growing in a specimen shot in October. I have recently com- 

 pared Javan examples with some from Darjeeling, and can 

 find no appreciable difference, except a slightly stouter bill, 

 which might be individual. 



284. Edglius paradiseus. 



This group is now classed under Dissemurus. Blyth states 

 that it is doubtful if the long-crested bird is found anywhere 

 except in the Subhimalayan region. The Goomsoor bird, and 

 those from the Eastern Ghats, certainly appear to me to be the 

 same, as also those from Assam. 



285. Edglius malabaricus. 



Gray* has recently named a bird of this group from Malabar 

 Edolius singularis. The type specimens of this bird want 

 the crest ; but they are young birds, and I think, moreover, 

 that they are imperfect as regards the frontal feathers. The 

 narrow part of the lengthened rectrices (which in these speci- 

 mens is very short) has a distinct though very minute web on 

 each side of the shaft. This may either be a mark of nonage 

 in these particular examples, or, more probably (as Lord Walden 

 reminds me), of the process of change which is occasionally 

 found, more or less, in most of the species of this group, and 

 even in E. lophorinus of Ceylon. Viscount Walden has in his 



* Haud-list, vol. i. p. 287, descr. uuUa ! 



