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composed of twigs and grass, or of moss and leaves, is usually- 

 very shallow, and is covered with lichens and spiders' webs ; it 

 is placed on slender branches of trees, or more rarely in bushes. 

 The two to five Shrike-like eggs are brownish, whitish, or apple- 



Fig. 116. — Grey " Coly-Shrike." Ilypocolius ampeUnus. x ^v. [Yrom. Nature.) 



green, with markings of brown, rufous, or purple. Those of the 

 isabelline-coloured Hypocolius ampelinus, which possibly belongs 

 to the Ampelidae, arc white with plumbeous spots. 



Fam. XIII. Dicruridae. — The Drongos, usually associated 

 with the Laniidae, range throughout the Ethiopian, Indian, and 

 Australian regions, as far east as New Britain and New Ireland 



