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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
The Pale-ashy Drongo is found abundantly over the whole of British 
Burmah, and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in Karennee. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula into Java and Lombock. It occurs 
in Siam^ Cochin China^ Cambodia and Eastern China_, and ranges across 
the Indo-Burmese countries into Nipal and the N.W. Himalayas. It 
appears to be everywhere a resident species. 
This Drongo is found abundantly in all the well-wooded parts of the 
country. I have never observed it in compounds or near houses. It is 
in the habit of perching on the lower branches of trees and capturing 
insects on the wing, returning many times as a rule to the same perch. 
I found the nest in April near Kyeikpadein placed near the summit of a 
small sapling. It was composed of fine twigs and dry stems of small weeds, 
and contained four eggs, which were white marked with pale purple. 
This species may be distinguished from the last by the pale coloration 
of the plumage. 
215. BUCHANGA LEUCOGENYS. 
THE WHITE-CHEEKED DRONGO. 
Buchanga leucogenys, Wakl Ann. Nat, Hist. ser. 4, v. p. 219 ; id. inBl. B. Burm. 
p. 131 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iii. p. 251; David et Otist. Ois. Chine, i^. 108, 
pi. 77 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1878, p. 69 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 216 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 92. Dicrurus leucophseus ( Vieill.), apud Hume, S. F. ii. p. 210. 
Description. — Male and female. Whole upper plumage clear pale ashy 
grey ; the shafts of the tail and quills and the tips of the first six or seven 
primaries black ; lores, ear-coverts and a space round the eye pure white ; 
forehead and nasal bristles black ; lower plumage like the upper but paler, 
and the vent and under tail-coverts albescent ; under wing-coverts white 
tinged with grey. 
Young birds have the white of the face less pure and smaller in extent ; 
the upper plumage, wings and tail are suffused with brown, rendering the 
black shafts less conspicuous ; the lower plumage is darker than in the 
adult ; the under wing-coverts are grey tipped with white. 
Legs, feet, claws, bill and eyelids black; irides pale lake to crimson. 
[Davison.) 
Length 10*5 inches, tail 5*7, wing 5*5, tarsus '75, bill from gape 1*1. 
The female is of the same size. 
The White-cheeked Drongo was procured by Mr. Davison in the 
southernmost part of Tenasserim, where he states it was abundant as far 
north as Mergui. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula and is also found in Cochin China^ 
