128 CUCULINA. 
belly, flanks, and tail-coverts white, also with dusky cross bars 
tibial feathers rufous barred. 
In a more advanced state of the same plumage the bars on 
the head and rump disappear, and those that remain have a 
green gloss upon them. | 
Not uncommon during the rains in many parts of the Deccan, 
and at Mount Aboo ;it probably also occurs at and near Mhow ; 
it has never been recorded from Sind, Cutch, Kattiawar, or Jodh- 
pore. 
Genus, Surniculus, Zesson. 
Tail even or forked, with the two outermost feathers short, the 
penultimate being slightly the longest, and each lateral half 
of the tail curling outward towards the tip as in the Drongos ; 
otherwise as in the last ; plumage black. 
Surniculus lugubris, Horsf. 
210.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 336. 
Tue Dronco or ForK-TAILED CucKOoO. 
Length, 10 ; wing, 5°5 ; tail 3°75; outermost tail feathers, 1:25 
inches less than the penultimate, which is the longest; middle 
pair 0°5 inch shorter. 
Bill black ; palate red; irides red brown; legs and feet dusky 
reddish. 
Black, with a changeable blue and green gloss, brightest above ; 
the head sub-crested, and generally two or three white feathers 
in the centre of the occiput; tibial and tarsal feathers partially 
white ; some white specks on the wing-coverts, and on the upper 
tail-coverts occasionally ; lower tail-coverts marked with white ; 
outermost primary with around white spot, and all the others 
with an oblique white mark, causing an oblique streak of white 
on the inner surface of the wings; outermost tail-feathers 
obliquely barred or spotted with white. 
The young birds are spotted with white on the head, wing- 
coverts, and lower surface; and the tail has also more white 
spots. 
Ee cantina to Jerdon, the Drongo or Tork-tailed Cuckoo occurs 
sparingly in Central India. 
Genus, Chrysococcyx, Bore. 
Bill as in cuculus, but a little more depressed at the base. 
and quite entire at tip; wings pointed ; second quill longer than 
the fourth; third nearly as long; the feathers of the ramp and 
upper tail-coverts soft ; and tarsi very short and much plumed. 
Chrysococcyx maculatus, Gm. 
211.—C. hodgsoni, Moore.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 
338. 
