318 DICEUKID^. 



333. Dicrurus cineraceus. The Grey Dronyo. 



Edolius ciueraceus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 145 (1821). 

 Buchanga mouhoti, Walden, A. M. N. H. (4) v, p. 220 (1870). 

 Buchanga wallacei, Walden, A. M. N. H. (4) v, p. 220 (1870). 

 Dicrurus longicaudatus (Hay}, Hume, S. F. iii, p. 97. 

 Dicrurus leucophseus ( Vieill.), Hume, S. F. iii, p. 99. 

 Buchanga cineracea (Horsf.), Sharpe, Gat. B. M. iii, p. 250. 

 Buchanga longicaudata (Sau\ Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 654. 

 Buchanga Ieucopha3a ( VieiU.), Oates, B. B. i, p, 221. 

 Buchanga pyrrhops (Hodgs.), Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 99. 



Coloration. Frontal plumes and lores black ; the whole plumage 

 bluish grey, glossy above, paler underneath and without gloss ex- 

 cept on the breast ; upper wing-coverts centred darker ; quills 

 more or less brown, tinged with ashy on the outer webs ; tail clear 

 bluish grey, the shafts black and the tips brownish. 



Bill black ; mouth dusky flesh-colour ; iris crimson ; feet and 

 claws black ; in the young the iris is brown. 



Length 11 ; tail 5-3 to 6-5 ; wing 5-2 to 575 ; tarsus 7 ; bill from 

 gape 1-1. 



Distribution. From the Brahmaputra river and the eastern branch 

 of the Ganges delta down to Lower Pegu and Northern Tenas- 

 serim. The southern limit of this species, so far as the specimens 

 [ have examined serve to show it, is a line drawn from Pegu town 

 to Thatone and on to Pahpoon. D. nigrescens is also found along 

 this line, and both species procured at the above places are quite 

 typical and distinct one from the other. Wardlaw Eamsay obtained 

 D. cineraceus in Karennee and the Toungngoo hills. It extends 

 into Siain. It is not found in any portion of the Malay peninsula, 

 but it reappears in Java, Lombock, and Palawan. 



D. stiymatops, Sharpe, is a very distinct species of this type, 

 with the lores pure white. It is found in Sumatra and Borneo. 



Habits, $c. This species frequents forests and the better wooded 

 parts of the country. I did not succeed in finding its nest in Pegu, 

 and nothing is known of its nidification. 



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Genus CHAPTIA, Hodgs., 1837. 



The genus Chaptia resembles Dicrurus in many respects. It 

 differs chiefly in its very depressed and flattened bill, and in the 

 pointed character of the feathers of the crown and hind neck. The 

 plumage is very glossy. The tail is much forked, the middle pair 

 of feathers reaching very little beyond the middle of the tail. 



334. Chaptia aenea. The Bronzed Drongo. 



Dicrurus senaus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. cFHist . Nat. ix, p. 586 (1817). 

 .Chaptia malayensis, A. Hay, Blyth, J.A.S. B. xv, p. 294 (1846) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 200; Horsf. 8f M. Cat. \, p. 393; Tweedd. Ibis, 



