128 Birds of Burma. [No. 1, 



Earn. Dicruridse. 



Drongos. 



*436. Chibia hottentota (J. 286). 



Arakan. 



[Tonghoo, Karen hills (W. B.); Pahpoon, Moulmein (2).).] 



*437. Bheinga eemifee (J. 283). 

 Arakan, Tenasserim. 



[Tonghoo, Karen hills {W. B.); Thayet Myo (0.). The Burman ex- 

 amples, as well as Indian, are not separable from the Javan.] 



*438. Chaptia 2enea (J. 282). 



Arakan, Tenasserim. 



[Tonghoo, Karen hills, Karen nee (W. B.); Thayet Myo (0.). C. 

 malayensis, A. Hay, is identical with the Sumatran Edolius picinus, S. 

 Miiller, Bp. Consp. i. p. 352, the type of which I have compared at Leyden.] 



*439. Dissemtjetts paeadiseus (J. 284, partim). 



Arakan, Tenasserim. I provisionally bring together the various races 

 of Bhimrdj (as they are designated in Bengal), because it appears to me that 

 their differentiation is not yet sufficiently understood; but specimens from 

 different localities differ much in size and in the development of the frontal 

 crest. In some the latter is rudimentary, if it exist at all ; while in others 

 it attains a length of 2£ in.,* the frontal plumes flowing over and beyond the 

 occiput. The ordinary length in Burmese specimens is about 1|- in. In one 

 specimen in the Calcutta Museum, which is believed to have been procured 

 by Heifer, the frontal crest is rudimentary, whilst the racket tail-feathers 

 attain very unusual length, the unwebbed portion of them being much more 

 spirated than I have seen in any other. Again, there is one race, found 

 especially in Tippera, with the frontal crest 2^- in. long, and the closed wing 

 6f in. But, with the exception perhaps of this Tippera bird, there would 

 seem to be all possible gradations in different localities, especially as regards 

 the development of the frontal crest. The longest crested (or Tippera form) 

 is styled Chibia malabaroides by Mr. Hodgson, f and the Edolius grandis, 

 Gould,| is described to have the crest 1£ in. in length. E. paradiseus (Cu- 



* vide figure in J. A. S. B. xv. p. 295. 



t India Review, 1837, p. 325; syn. Lanius tnalabarieus, as figured by Latham and 

 Shaw, not as described by Latham from Sonnerat's figure. 

 % P. Z. S. 1836, p. 3. 



