CHAPTIA. 



Hab. India, ranging through Assam and Burmah to China. Jerdon re- 

 cords it from Southern India, the Eastern Ghauts, Malabar, Wynaad, and 

 Chota Nagpur, and says that it is found also about Calcutta, in the Sunder- 

 buns and in the Himalayas. Blyth observed it in parts of the forests of 

 Upper Martaban, and Jerdon himself procured specimens in the warmer val- 

 leys near Darjeeling. According to Gates, it is found over the whole of Bur- 

 mah, except, perhaps, in the southernmost portion of Tennaserim. It is said 

 to occur in Arrakan and in many parts of Pegu. Fairly common at Prome. 

 Davison got it in Tennaserim and Captain Bingham in the Thoungyeen Valley. 

 It has also been procured at Tounghoo and on the Karin Hills. 



The Hair Crested Drongo is an inhabitant of thick forests or groves. It is 

 said to feed on insects as wasps, bees, beetles, &c. Breeds in May and June. 

 Nest constructed of fine twigs, placed generally in a fork at the top of very high 

 trees. Eggs three in number, white, spotted and streaked with reddish brown, 

 or purplish and claret. 



Gen. Chaptia. Hodgs. 



Tail strongly forked ; outer tail feathers not much recurved at tip ; plumage 

 spangled with metallic bronze tips; frontal plumes dense. Bill depressed and 

 more feeble than in Dicrurus. ist quill short, 4th longest, 3rd and 6th equal. 



159. Chaptia senea, Vieiil, N. Diet, d' Hist. ix. p. 586 ; Jerd. B. ind. 



i, p. 433 5 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 192 ; Ely. and Wald. B. Burm. p. 128 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. TOO; Armstrong, Str.F. iv. p. 320; Sharpe, Cat. B.Br. 

 Mus. iii. p. 243; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 652 ; Hume and Davison, Sir. 

 F. vi. p. 217; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 92 ; Oates, Str. F. viii. p. 166 ; Scully, 

 Sir. F. viii. p. 272; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 173; Oates, B. Br. Burm. \. 

 p. 223. Edolius picinus (S. Mull) Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 352. The 

 BRONZED DRONGO. 



Whole plumage black, glossed with metallic bronze on the upper and under 

 surface, except the rump, vent, under tail coverts, and lower abdomen, which are 

 dull greyish brown ; throat and breast spangled with metallic bronze tips 

 to the feathers ; under wing coverts black, only slightly glossed with bronze ; 

 lores and sides of face unglossed dull or brownish black. Bill and feet black ; 

 iris blackish brown (pinkish hazel, Oates). Eyelids purplish grey. 



Length. 9 to 9-5 inches; wing 475 to 5; tail 475 to 5; tarsus 0*65; 

 culmen ro 



