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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Bill and legs black ; irides brown. {Jerdon.) 
Length 10'5 inches, tail 5'1, wing 5'6, tarsus '8, bill from" gape 1*2. The 
female is rather smaller than the male. 
So little has been written about this bird that it is very difficult to 
ascertain what its distribution is. It sweeps through Pegu every year in 
October ; but whether it comes from the north or from the south I am 
unable to say : it is not seen at other times. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
procured it in Rangoon, but he does not state at what time of the year he 
obtained it. Mr. Davison says that it is not uncommon in the southern 
third of Tenasserim, and it appears that he got it as far north as Mount 
Nwalabo. My own men, who collected for me at Malewoon, brought 
great numbers of it; and all their specimens were procured from the 13th 
of December to the 10th of February. There seems little doubt that this 
Drongo is a migratory species. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in the island of 
Sumatra. Dr. Tiraud gives it from Cochin China. Dr. Jerdon states 
that this bird is rare in Nipal, in the lower valleys near the plain, and 
extends thence eastwards through Lower Bengal and Dacca to Assam, 
Burma and Malacca. 
The birds I had the opportunity of observing in Pegu had the habits of 
the Common Black Drongo, sitting on the branches of bushes &c. and 
darting on passing insects. 
Genus BUCHANGA, Hodgs. 
212. BUCHANGA ATRA. 
THE BLACK DRONGO. 
Muscicapa atra, Hermann, Obs, Zool. p. 208. Dicrurus macrocercus, VietU. 
Nouv. Diet. cVHist. Nat. ix. p. 588 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 427. Edolius forficatus, 
Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 144. Buchanga albirictus, Hodgs. Ind. 
Rev. i. p. 326 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 186 ; Armstrong, 8. F. iv. p. 318. 
Dicrurus minor, Bl. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xiii. p. 129. Dicrourus longus 
{Tem^n.), Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 352. Dicrurus cathoecus, Swinh.P.Z.S. 
1871, p. 377 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine^ p. 108. Dicrurus albirictus, Hume, 
S. F. iii. p. 97. Buchanga atra, Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 129 ; SJiarpe, Cat. 
Birds B. Mus. iii. p. 246 ; Hume Dav. iS. F. vi. p. 213 ; Anders. Yunnan 
Exped. p. 653 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 386 ; Cripps, S. F. vii. p. 272 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 91 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 270. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole plumage deep black every- 
where glossed with steel-blue ; a small white spot sometimes present close 
to the angle of the gape. 
