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oil the wing, and hawk for it until quite dark, and they have 

 been known to capture such a nauseous insect as Eiiploea 

 super ba. 



This species begins to buikl its nest early in May, and 

 eggs have been taken from the third week of that mouth 

 until the second week in June. The nest is usually placed, 

 like that o£ Chibia, at the extremity of a horizontal bougli, but 

 not always, and an upright fork is sometimes used. When 

 building on a horizontal bough they begin by making the 

 outside rim, joining the two prongs of the fork first — 

 the one away from the trunk, tliat is to say. The nests 

 are made of grass or of lichen, and sometimes, as at Hung 

 Kong, of the aerial rootlets of the banyan-tree. 



Although not so flimsy a nest as that of Chibia, it is still 

 sometimes possible to see the eggs through the bottom. These 

 are three or four in number. In the nest of this species Cuculus 

 microptei'us lays its eggs at times, as is noticed elsewhere. 



The eggs are reddish pink in colour, spotted with ash and 

 reddish brown, chiefly at the larger end, and vary in lengtli 

 from ] '14 to '92, and in breadth from "83 to '70 ; they average 

 102X-75. 



BUCHANGA CINERACEA. 



The Ashy Drongo-Shrike is found as a summer visitor at 

 Kwei Hsieu, where it breeds, and it was once noticed at Tak 

 Hing in Kwang Tung. 



An old nest found at Kwei Hsien was made of grass and 

 constructed like that of Bachanga atra. 



The note of this bird is loud, metallic, dissyllabic, and 

 quite unmistakable. On February 16tli, 1908, one of these 

 birds arrived at Hong Kong, and remained there until the 

 middle of April, in the vicinity of the Naval Hospital and 

 Happy Valley, This is the only occasion on which this 

 species was ever seen in the island, which is some hundreds 

 of miles from its usual habitat. 



BuCHANGA LEUCOGENYS. 



This Drongo-Shrike is a summer visitor, and breeds only 

 jit Howlik Forest, where it is rare. It was seen at Macao 



