Fifty Common Blinds of China 



FAMILY DICRURIDAE 



Dt'ongoes. 



The Drongoes are medium sized birds, wholly black, or nearly so, in 

 plumage. Their bills are like a Crow's, with strong bristles at the base, 

 but much smaller in size. The tail is rather long and is forked. The 

 Drongoes are graceful in flight, often seen in the tops of trees and 

 bashes, darting after passing insects to return, in graceful curvfs, to their 

 fiesdbes. 



Tliere are three kinds of Drongoes found in China, but c»ily one of 

 these In at all common. 



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