228 BIRDS OF BUITISH BUEMAH. 
The Hair-crested Drongo is found in large flocks in thick forests or in 
places where large trees abound. They are generally seen on flowering 
trees engaged in feeding on the nectar of the flowers and also on insects. 
They never descend to the ground. I have frequently found the nest in 
May in Pegu ; it is constructed of fine twigs and dry creeper-stalks^ and 
is hung between the two branches of a fork at the very top of the highest 
trees. It is a matter of extreme difliculty to get at the nest. The eggs, 
three in number, are white marked with reddish brown and neutral thit. 
This species may be recognized by the hair-like feathers of the crest, 
which are of great length. 
Familv CAMPOPHAGIDiE. 
Genus GRAUCALUS, Cuvier. 
220. GRAUCALUS MACII. 
THE INDIAN CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 
Graucalus macii, Less. Traite, p. 349 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 417 ; Wald. Ibis, 1872, 
p. 311 ; Blanf. J. A. S, B. xli. pt. ii, p. 156; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 181 ; id. 
S. F. ii. p. 204 ; Ball, S. F. ii. p. 400 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 123 ; Anders. Yunnan 
Exyed, p. 647 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 360; Sliarpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 34 ; 
Hume, S.F.Vin. p. 91; Scidly, S. F. viii. p. 267. Graucalus layardi, 
Ibis, 1866, p. 358; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 117; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 287. 
Description. — Male. Upper plumage grey, paler on the rump and upper 
tail-coverts ; the region of the nostrils, the lores and feathers about the gape 
black ; sides of the face and of the neck similar to the upper plumage ; 
ear-coverts blackish j chin, throat, breast and upper abdomen grey, rather 
lighter than the upper parts ; remainder of lower plumage greyish white ; 
wing-coverts like the back ; bastard wing black ; primaries and primary- 
coverts dark brown, very narrowly edged with grey ; secondaries more 
broadly edged with the same ; tertiaries grey on the whole outer web and 
brown on the inner ; central tail-feathers ashy, tipped paler ; the others 
blackish, all tipped with greyish white, increasing in extent outwardly, with 
the bases grey, this colour decreasing in extent outwardly and being absent 
on the outer ones. 
Female. The black on the face is absent, and this part as well as the 
ear- coverts are of much the same grey as the head ; the general tone of 
the plumage is lighter. The female is seldom without a few indications of 
immaturity, these signs being visible chiefly in the shape of obsolete bars. 
