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creaking like a rusty wheel. The notes at times resemble the higher 
strains of an organ, and, heard in the wild and lovely scenes where 
this bird is found, appear singularly striking and plaintive." — 
(Journ. A. S. Beng. II. p. 574.) 
Mr. Hodgson states,* " Its food is chiefly wasps, bees, and their 
congeners, also green beetles, and other coleoptera ; very rarely 
vetches. Solitary or in pairs, part of the year in families, the 
young with the parents, never quitting the forests ; descends from 
time to time from its lofty perch to seize an insect on the wing ; 
occasionally seizes on the ground, but instantly retiring to its perch. 
Common to all the three regions of Nepal. Moults in autumn, 
between August and October, and, I think, only in autumn." — 
(Ind. Eev. I. p. 325.) 
d. subgen. Bhringa, JSLodgs. 
205. DIGRUBUS {BERING A) BEMIFEB, Temm. Sp. 
Edolius remifer, Temm., Bl. Col. 178. Blyth, Journ, A. 
S. Beng. XI. pp. 169, 800. 
Bhringa remifer, Blyth. Journ. A, S. Beng. XY. p. 294 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 200. G. R. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. 287. Hodgs., Cat. B. Nep. 
p. 99. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 350. 
Bhringa tectirostris, Sodgs.^ Ind. Rev. I. p. 325. 
The Drongo a Bames, Temm. 
Nghet-dan, Arracan, Blyth. 
A. and Drawing. Assam. Presented by J. McClel- 
land, Esq. 
h. Darjeeling. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
c. d. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., July, 
1853. 
e. subgen. Chaptia, Hodgs. 
206. DIGRURUS {CHAPTIA) JENEA, Yieill Sp. 
Dicrurus aeneus, Vieill, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. IX. p. 586. 
Jerd., Madr, Jomn. L. S. X. p. 240. 
* " The intestines are 15 inches long, larger above than below. Caeca f of an 
inch. Stomach muscular and red : outer coat of medial unequal thickness ; inner, 
tough and striolated."— (Hodgson, Ind. Kev. I. p. 325.) 
