154 DICRURID^:. 



Hab. The moist climates of India generally, extending to Assam and 

 Burmah. Occurs along the Malabar Coast, in Travancore, Southern India 

 generally, Lower Bengal, Central India and on the slopes of the Himalayas to 

 Nepaul. Gates says it is found in every part of Burmah, and that Mr. Blyth gives 

 it from Arrakan. He procured it in Pegu, and both Davison and Captain 

 Bingham found it abundant in all parts of Tennaserim, while Captain Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay obtained it at Tounghoo, in the Karen Hills and in Karenne. 



The Bronzed Drongo is an inhabitant of dense and lofty forests, and is usually 

 found in small parties, near the top of some lofty tree, whence it sallies 

 forth, darts on passing insects, and returns generally to the same perch. Gates 

 found a nest in April. It was cup-shaped, placed at the top of the higher 

 branches of a Jack tree, Artocarpus integrifolia, and made of fine grass, strips 

 of plantain bark and vegetable fibres over-laid at the edges with cobweb. Eggs 

 two in number, of a salmon colour and marked with darker shades of the same. 



160. Chaptia malayensis, Blyth. J. A. S. B. xv. p. 294 (ex. A. Hay 



MS.) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 434 ; Sharpe,Cat. B. Br. Mus. iii. p. 244. Chaptia 

 malayana, S/iarpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 45. The MALAY DRONGO. 



Differs from C. anea in having the whole plumage, including the vent, rump 

 and upper and under tail coverts of a glossy metallic greenish black colour, the 

 abdomen and flanks greyish black. It is also much smaller, adults measuring 

 8-3 against 9-5 inches in length ; wing 4-5 ; tail 4 ; tarsus C'6; culmen 0-85. 



Hal. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and, according to Dr. Tiraud, 

 Cochin-China. Habits, those of the last. 



Gen. Buchanga. Hodgs. 



Bill moderate, depressed at base and slightly hooked ; culmen keeled and 

 notched at tip ; rictal bristles strong ; frontal plumes dense, but not elongated 

 to form a crest. Plumage black ; tail forked. 



161. Buchanga atra, Herm. Obs. Zool. p. 208 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. 

 Sind, p. 126 ; Sharpe, Cat. Passerif. B. Br. Mus. p. 246. Dicrurus macro- 

 cercus, Viell. N. Diet. ix. p. 588; Jerd. Mad. Journ. xiii. pt. ii. p. 1 21 ; id. 

 B. of Ind. i. p. 427, No. 278 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 286 ; Sir. F. iv. 278 ; vi. 

 213 ; vii. 272 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fy-c., Sind> p. 137. Buchanga albirictus, 

 Hodgs. Ind. Rev. p. 326 ; Hume, Sir. F., 1873, p. 178; Ball. Str. F., 1874, 

 p. 402. Dicrurus balicassius, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 86 (nee. 1.}. The COM- 

 MON DRONGO SHRIKE or KING CROW. 



Head, hind neck, back, upper tail coverts, lesser and median wing coverts 

 glossy blue-black ; a white spot at the gape ; chin, throat, lores, sides of the 

 face, and under surface of the body black, less glossy than the upper surface, 

 and with a greenish cast ; greater and primary coverts black, glossed greenish, 

 also the secondaries and tertiaries ; primaries and tail duller black ; the inner 

 webs of the primaries and under surface of the tail dusky. Young with whitish 

 lunules on the under surface of the body. Bill and legs black ; irides red. 



