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In Nepal, according to Mr. Hodgson, this species is confined exclu- 

 sively to the mountain forests; and I am informed that it occurs rarely 

 at Darjeeling. A single specimen has been obtained by Mr. Jerdon 

 in Southern India, near Manantoddy, in the Wynaad ; in this indivi- 

 dual the irides are stated by him to have been reddish-brown, and 

 the legs reddish. 



12. C. ( Pseudorms) lugubris, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII. 179, and 

 Jav. Res., with a coloured figure ; C albopunctulatus, Drapiez, Diet. 

 Class. d'Hist. Nat. IV, 570. (Square-tailed Drongo Cuckoo.) 

 This so very much resembles the last as to require some consider- 

 ation as to the propriety of admitting them as distinct; but on 

 minute comparison I am satisfied that they are distinct, although the 

 plumage absolutely resembles, to every white speck and marking on 

 the greenish -glossed black ground ; the example of C. lugubris before 

 me has, however, an occipital spot composed of three or four wholly 

 white feathers, which I do not perceive in the preceding species, 

 though both specimens of the latter which I have for comparison 

 are unfortunately somewhat defective of feathers just at that part ; 

 there are also a few scattered white specks upon the crown and on the 

 breast of C. lugubris, which however may occur in some specimens of 

 the other : the more distinctive differences consist in the present being 

 a smaller bird, with shorter wings and tail, the latter square, or 

 merely exhibiting a furcate tendency from the decided curvature 

 outward of each lateral half, besides which the outermost pair of 

 tail-feathers are in a greater degree shorter than the rest than in C 

 aicruroides. Length about nine inches, of wing four inches and seven- 

 eighths, and tail four inches and a half, its outermost feathers an inch 

 and a half shorter than the rest, whereas in C. dicruroides these are 

 but an inch and a quarter shorter than the more elongated penultimate 

 tail- feathers; bill to forehead (through the feathers) fifteen-sixteenths 

 of an inch, and to gape an inch ; tarse under five-eighths of an inch. 

 Bill and feet black, according to Dr. Horsfield, but the latter seem to 

 have had a yellowish tinge in the Society's specimen : irides, according 

 to the same authority, dark-coloured. 



" The C. lugubris," writes Dr. Horsfield, " is found in districts 

 of secondary elevation, which are diversified with extended ranges 

 of hills and covered with luxuriant forests. The southern and wes- 



