154 DICRURINZ. 
the longest ; legs short ; feet small; tail usually long, forked; the 
outer feathers occasionally much lengthened; of ten feathers 
only. 
Genus, Buchanga, Hodgson. 
Bill moderate or rather long, stout, depressed at the base, 
moderately hooked, and the culmen more or less keeled, and 
distinctly notched at the tip; nostrils small, partially covered by 
short feathers and bristles; rictal bristles strong; wings 
lengthened ; first quill short, second shorter than sixth ; tail long, 
deeply forked ; tarsus moderate, strongly scaled in front ; outer-toe 
slightly the longest ; claws sharp. 
Buchanga atra, Herm. 
278.—Dicrurus macrocercus, Vieill—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 427; B. albirictus, Hodgs.; Butler, Guzerat; Stray 
Feathers, Vol. III, p. 465 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 894; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 126; Swin- 
hoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 66. 
THE ComMoN DRONGO-SHRIKE. 
THE Kine Crow. 
Kolsa, Hin. 
Length, 11°5 to 13°75; expanse, 17 to 18°75; wing, 5°50 to 
5°75 ; tail, 6 to 7:25 ; tarsus, 0°9 ; bill from gape, 1 to 1:25; bill 
at front, 0°75. 
Bill black ; irides maroon-red ; legs black. 
Glossy black, with a smali white spot at the gape (not always 
present), somewhat duller black on the quills and tail, which are 
brownish-black beneath. 
Young with whitish lunules on the abdominal plumage. 
The King Crow is a common permanent resident throughout 
the region, breeding during May, June and July, a few breed- 
ing earlier or later according to locality. 
The nest is usually built in a fork of a tree, at some height 
from the ground, and is composed of grass roots and stems neatly 
woven together, and is of a shallow saucer-shape. The regular 
number of eggs is four, but occasionally five are found ; they are 
of two very distinct types. The first isa pure white, without 
markings ; the other a pale salmon color, marked with rich 
red-brown. 
Between these types every variety occurs, but all the eggs out 
of the same nest strongly resemble each other. 
They measure 1:01 inches in length by 0°75 in breadth, 
Buchanga longicauda, Hay. 
280.—Dicrurus longicaudatus, Hay—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
ly p- 395; Butler, Deccan; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 394; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 66, 
