224 BIRDS OF BEITISH BURMAH. 
The Bronzed Drongo appears to be found in every part of Burmah. 
Mr. Blyth gives it from Arrakan^ and I procured it at numerous places in 
Pegu. Both Mr. Davison and Capt. Bingham found it abundant in all 
parts of Tenasserim. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay obtained it at Tonghoo^ in 
the Karin hills and in Karennee. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula^ and is found in the islands of 
Sumatra and Borneo, and Dr. Tiraud states that it is found in Cochin 
China. If C. brauniana should prove identical with the present species, it 
is also found in China. 
The Bronzed Drongo is an inhabitant of forests and places where there 
are a good many trees. It takes up its post on the summit or one of the 
higher branches of a tree, and darts on passing insects, generally returning 
to the same perch for some considerable time together. I found the nest 
in April near Kyeikpadein. It was made of fine grass, strips of plaintain- 
bark and vegetable fibres, overlaid at the edges with cobwebs, and was 
cup-shaped. It was placed at the tip of one of the higher branches of a 
jack -tree, and contained two eggs, which were salmon-coloured marked 
with a darker shade of the same. 
Genus BHRINGA, Hodgs. 
217. BHRINGA REMIFER. 
THE LESSER RACKET-TAILED DRONGO. 
- Edolius remifer, Temm. PI. Col. 178. Bhringa tectirostris, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. 
i. p. 325 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 193 ; id, S. F. iii. p. 101. Bhringa re- 
mifer, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 434 ; Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 128 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
B. Mus. iii. p. 257 ; Hume 8f Bav. S. F. vi. p. 218 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1878, p. 80 ; 
Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 652 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 92. 
Description, — Male and female. Plumage entirely black ; the head_, neck, 
throat and breast glossed with metallic violet ; the back and the outer webs 
of the quills and tail-feathers glossed with metallic blue. 
Iris red ; bill, legs and claws black ; eyelids plumbeous. 
Length to end of central tail-feathers lO'S inches (the outer tail-feathers 
produced about 8 inches further), tail 5*2 to 12, wing 5-2, tarsus -8, bill 
from gape 1*2. In the non-breeding season the outer tail-feathers are the 
same length as the central ones. 
The Lesser Racket -tailed Drongo is found sparingly distributed over 
Pegu and confined entirely to the deep forests. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
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