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DICRURID^E. 



Terai. Gates says, it sweeps through Pegu every year in October ; but whether 

 it comes from the North or from the South he is unable to say ; it is not seen 

 at other times. Capt. Wardlaw-Hamsay procured it in Rangoon. Mr. Davison 

 says it is not uncommon in the southern third of Tennaserim. Gates had 

 examples from Malewoon, procured from December to February. Its habits 

 are said to be those of the Common Drongo Shrike. 



Gen. 



Bill lengthened, compressed, curved and keeled on the culmen, tip hooked 

 and obsoletely notched ; octal bristles short ; forehead crested with hairs 

 which fall over the neck; tail forked, outer feathers slightly lengthened, 

 turned up ; feathers of head and neck lanceolate. 



158. Chibia hottentottus, Lin., Syst. Nat. \. p. 155- Chibia 



hottentotta, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 439 , No. 286 ; Ely. B. Burm. p. 128 ; Anders. 

 Yunnan Exped. p. 65 I ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 194 ; Hume, Sir. F. iii. 

 p. IOI ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iii. p. 235 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1878, p. 73 ; 

 Hume and Davison, Sir. F. vi. p. 222 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 92 ; Oates, Str. 

 F. viii. p. 167; Scully, Str. F. viii. p. 272; Bingham , Str.F.ix.p. 174; 

 Gates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 227. The HAIR-CRESTED DRONGO. 



Whole plumage black, with metallic blue reflections on the back and lower 

 parts ; lores and frontal plumes black, with a crest of long hairs springing from 

 the base of the forehead and falling over the nape ; sides of face purplish 

 black ; feathers of the head and sides of neck metallic steel green, those on the 

 neck, long and lanceolate ; feathers of the throat and neck tipped with metallic 

 steel green. Upper surface of wing metallic bronze green ; rest of the plum- 

 age black with metallic steel blue or green reflections ; outer feathers of the 

 tail recurved inwards at the tips. Bill and legs black ; iris dark brown. 



Length. 12'5 to 13 inches; wing 6'5 to 6-95; tail 5'6 to 65; culmen 

 i'55 to i '6 ; tarsus 0*910 i. 



