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Young birds are duller, with white 

 tips to the feathers of the lower parts, 

 and under wing coverts. 



Distribution. — All China. A summer 

 visitant in the Yangtse Valley. 



Nest and Eggs. — The nest is built in 

 trees, often near dwellings. It is 

 composed of grass and fine twigs, 

 covered with cobwebs. There are four 

 or five eggs, either pure white, or pale 

 pink, spotted with brownish red. 



Notes. — This bird frequents trees 

 near marshes or other water. The 

 gizzard of one opened in July contain- 

 ed a large number of small black 

 beetles. 



THE HAIRY-CRESTED DRONGO. 



CHIBIA HOTTENTOTTA, (l). 



Description. — Length twelve and one 

 half inches. Bill and tarsus black. 

 Iris brown. 



Whole plumage brilliant irridescent 

 black. Feathers of the neck and breast 

 pointed. A few long hairs form the 

 crest. Tail long and forked, the lateral 

 retrices distinctly curled. 



Distribution. — India and China. A 

 summer visitant in the Yangtse Valley. 



Nest and Eggs. — The nests are built 

 in bamboos or high trees. They are 

 usually fastened to the smaller twigs 

 near the top, and are very difficult to 

 get at. They are frail in appear- 

 ance, but are really quite strongly built 

 of fine twigs, roots, moss, and leaves. 

 There are four or five eggs of a deep 

 creamy pink ground color, variously 

 splotched and speckled with red, purple, 

 and gray. 



Notes. — These birds seem to keep 

 largely to the hills in the Yangtse 



