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a male, was: — Length, 12'40; tail, 6*50; wing, 610; tarsus, 

 0*90; bill from gape, ri7; weight, 2 OSozs. Irides crimson in 

 adults, reddish in the young. They are seasonal visitants. — 

 J. E. C] 



I have received 279. — Dicrurus annectans, Hodgs., from 

 Khowang in the Dibrugarh district, but this is the only 

 locality in which I know it to have occurred in Assam, Cachar 

 or Sylhet. In Manipur I did not meet with it. 



[This species is found, in Dibrugarh, away from the villages, and 

 very often in the waste open patches of grass and " pathar " 

 land amongst the forests. — J. R C] 



In British Burmah, too, we only have it recorded from 

 Tenasserim, south of Tavoy, and from Lower Pegu, near 

 Rangoon. 



2S0bis. — Buchanga pyrrhops, Hodgs. 



This species was not rare in either the Eastern or Western 

 hills, but I never saw it down on the Manipur level, thoxigh 

 I got it once at Bishnoopoor, only a little above this just at 

 the base of the Limatol range. 



As usual some specimens run close to longicaudata, and, a 

 thing I have not seen before, two or three closely approach 

 the grey Malayan Drongo B. leucophaea, Vieill, as I call it, 

 B. cineracea, Horsf., according to others. Everywhere longicau- 

 data runs into pyrrhops, but nowhere else have I met with 

 pyrrhops running into leucophaea. 



All the Manipur specimens may, however, be most properly 

 classed as pyrrhops ; all are nearer the typical form of this 

 than those of either longicaudata or leucophaea. 



The following are particulars of a very typical pyrrhops : — 



Length, 11 '8; expanse, 16-3 ; tail, 615 ; wing, 5"6 ; tarsus, 

 07 ; bill from gape, 1-2 ; weight, l-61ozs. Legs, feet, and bill 

 black ; irides sealing wax or vermilion red. 



But in other specimens the wings vary from 4'9 to 5*75, 

 and every gradation of size and shade of colouring is observable, 

 and it is simply absurd to divide these, as has been done by 

 some, into two species, intermedia and pyrrhops, differing 

 solely in dimensions. 



I may add that I cannot find that Hodgson ever described 

 pyrrhops; he very likely did so, but I have not 

 been able to find the reference ; but if he did not, 

 and only mentioned it in the list in the Zool. Misc., then Blyth's 

 name intermedia must be adopted. 



