PALE-WINGED DRONGO. 
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seen in tlie majority of the species, that we shall 
now adopt it. An interesting account of the man- 
ners of these birds, too long to he here repeated, 
will he found in Northern Zoology, ii. page 134. 
We cannot determine this species from any of 
the descriptions in Le Vaillant, with which we hare 
carefully compared it. We shall therefore con- 
sider it as new, although it is by no means uncom- 
mon. Its chief distinction, as expressed in the 
specific character, is in the very unusual paleness of 
the inner webs of the primary quills, which, upon 
their upper surface, are of the very lightest brown ; 
they are palest at the base, and gradually become 
darker towards their tips, while their inner surface, 
or that next to the body, is so light, that but for a 
greyish tinge, they would he quite white. The 
plumage is glossy blue-black, but without any me- 
tallic reflections ; the depth of the fork of the tail 
is three quarters of an inch, and the two divisions 
divaricate considerably ; the third and fourth quills 
are largest, and the second and seventh are equal. 
Total length, 9 ^ ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; wings, 
5 t 3 5 ; tail beyond, 2 j ; ditto from the base, 4 j ; 
tarsus, j 6 jj. 
