26 ON A SPECIES OF DICRURUS. 



The female of this species is rather less than the male. Her colours 

 are a}l duller. She wants the black zone round the base of the upper 

 mandible of the bill. Her breast and sides of her body are crossed with 

 small crescents of a faint dusky hue : and the hase of her bill is paled, 

 nearly to fleshy white. In all other points she resembles her mate. 



Valley of Nepal, June, 1829. 



