446 DICRURID®. 
Genus BHRINGA, Hodyson. 
Bhringa remifer (7'emm.). 
(Plate XX. fig. 21.) 
Bhringa remifer, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M, iii. p. 257 (1877); Oates, 
Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 824 (1889); Oates, ed. Hume, Nests § 
Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 216 (1889); Nehkrk, Kat. Eversamml. p. 20 
(1899), p. 855 (1910); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 565 (1909). 
Three eggs of the Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo are of a regular 
oval form and fairly glossy. The ground is of a rich salmon-pink 
colour. ‘I'wo specimens are rather thickly spotted and blotched 
with chestnut and lavender; the third is smeared with dull 
chestnut and purplish-grey. In all the markings are chiefly 
distributed over the broad end of the shell and are more or less 
confluent. They measure respectively : 1:07 by °73; 1-07 by °75; 
“OT Dy tee 
2. Darjiling, Sikhim, 15th May Hume Coll. 
(J. Gammie). 
1. Darjiling, 20th May (J. G.). Hume Coll. 
Genus DISSEMURUS, Gloger. 
Dissemurus paradiseus (Linn.). 
Dissemurus paradiseus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 258 (1877) ; 
Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 899 (1879); Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 
1. p. 825 (1889) ; Oates, ed. Hume, Nests § Egas Ind. Birds, i. p. 217 
(1889); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 21 (1899), p. 3855 (1910) ; 
Osmaston, J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 157 (1906) ; Sharpe, 
Hand-l, v. p. 566 (1909). 
The eggs of the Larger Racket-tailed Drongo are usually of a 
blunt oval form, but a few are somewhat pointed. They have a 
fair amount of gloss. The specimens are of three types. In one, 
the ground is white, speckied, spotted, and sometimes blotched 
with darker and paler shades of inky-purple, the markings being 
most numerous at the larger end. In the second type, the ground 
is pinkish-white, spotted, blotched, and clouded with two or more 
shades of chestnut and with pale lilac. In the third type, which 
is represented by one example only, the ground is pale salmon-pink, 
blotched all over with lavender and very pale rufous. The eggs 
measure from 1:05 to 1:2 in length, and from -75 to °85 in breadth. 
1. Darjiling, Sikhim, May (7. C. Hume Coll. 
Jerdon). 
1. Darjiling, 14th May. Hume Coll. 
2. Mysore, 10th April (J. Macpher- Hume Coll. 
son). 
