THE HAIR-CRESTED DRONGO. 
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builds the nest in a fork. The nest is made of fine twigs and creepers, 
and is sometimes lined with grass. The eggs, usually three in number, 
are white or pinkish marked with reddish brown and neutral tint. 
Genus CHIBIA, Ilodgs. 
219. CHIBIA HOTTENTOTTA. 
THE HAIR-CRESTED DRONGO. 
Corvus hottentottus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 155. Chibia hottentota, Jerd. B. 
Ind. i. p. 439 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 128 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 651. Chibia 
brevirostris, Cab. Mus. Rein. i. p. 112 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 110. 
Chibia hottentotta, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 194 ; Hmne, 8. F. iii. p. 101 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iii. p. 235 ; Tiveedd. Ibis, 1878, p. 73 ; Hume 8f Dav. 
S.F. vi. p. 222 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 92 ; Gates, S. F. viii. p. 167 ; ScuUg, S. F. 
viii. p. 272; Bingham, S.F.ix.i^. 174. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole plumage black, with metallic 
blue reflections on the crown and hackled feathers of the neck and breast ; 
wing-coverts and outer webs of the quills and tail-feathers glossed with 
metallic bronze. 
Iris dark brown ; bill, legs and claws black. 
Length 12*5 inches, tail 5*6, wing 6*5, tarsus '9, bill from gape 1*6. The 
female is of the same size. 
The Hair-crested Drongo is found pretty well over the whole of Burmah 
except, perhaps, in the southernmost portion of Tenasserim, where Mr. 
Davison did not observe it. 
Mr. Blyth states that it occurs in Arrakan. I have observed it in many 
parts of Pegu. I got it at Boulay between Thayetmyo and Prome, and I 
found it very abundant at Nyoungyeedouk at the foot of the Arrakan hills 
on the eastern side. I also found it abundant in the forests round En- 
tagau bungalow on the Prome road. Mr. Davison found it in Tenasserim 
as far south as Bopyin, and Capt. Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. 
Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay records it from Tonghoo and the Karin hills east 
of that town. 
Dr. Tiraud states that it occurs in Cochin China, and it is also found 
spread over the greater part of China up to Pekin. The Chinese and 
Cochin-Chinese race, C. brevirostris , is not considered distinct from the 
Burmese and Indian bird by Mr. Sharpe and Lord Tweeddale. C. hotten- 
totta is also found in the Indo-Burmese countries, in the Himalayas and 
over a great portion of India. 
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