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, 1 i.1, +n Tiave done so. It is therefore singular that it should be a 
west eoast, nor does Mr. Holdsworth pp occasional visitant to the west coast : I once 
common species on the opposite sine rolomho hut it quickly disappeared into the interior, 
noticed an example in October m the obtaining a specimen about sixteen miles from Colombo. 
Mr. Holdsworth likewise met with it in tha ^ j „ T liave seen it in the Wellaway Korale; and 
Further south on this side of the island it is un now . Hanutale in the month of November, 
Mr. Bligh writes me of a Black Drongo which frequented the hills I have never 
which must h»e belonged to this species. Other evidence then this of its g 
obtained. . t j nf it — “ The Long-tailed Drongo 
This Drongo inhabits the whole of the Indian peninsu a. er oi m„„v„i,core . . . • I have killed it in 
is found wherever there is lofty forest jungle, from the ima about Calcutta and all along the 
Malabar, the Wynaad, Coorg, and the Nilghinsj it is » Captain Hutton says that it 
Himalayas up to 8000 feet of elevation. It is tolerably common at m^ji g_ 
is the only species of Drongo which visits Mussourie, a™^“& ^ ^ ^ permanent resident. 
Captain C. H. Marshall records it from Murree. In the south probably from there 
Mr. Bourdillon remarks that it is common in Travancore and, as ^ ^^f^YaTrs^mewh^^^ 
that it visits Ceylon; but why it should arrive so frequently on ® Ahmednagar district. 
Mr. Fairbank records it from Khandala, and says that i 7 pv+reme limit to the north 
Jerdou rernarb that Adams found it common in Cashmere, which must be its extreme 
and west. 
Habits.— He&ry jungle and forest are the localities by it in which to take up 
of open places, banks of rivers, or margins of secluded tan s f ^jopical woods. It perches on the tops 
its quarters ; and there it subsists on the insectivorous diet so ri e in sallies forth on the beetles and 
of tall trees or on some outstanding branch, from which prominen captured. It is an 
various ivinged insects which pass it, and then returns to its pos o ^ infrequently consorting with 
inquisitive and somewhat querulous species, chasing Hawks an r ’ which has been discovered 
Bulbuls and other small birds for the purpose of mobbing an un Devil-bird. On first arriving in 
abroad during the daylight. I have more than once found i but it soon disappears for its 
the island it is found in avenues and groves of trees near liunian forest, and may easily be 
sylvan haunts. It is often noticed on the edges f '^itlirslender outhne. It is one of the last birds to 
recognized from other Drongos by its long tail and gen y •. bns-s &c. which are abroad during 
retire in the evening, and often makes a supper off the eet es, cr cleverly 
the short twilight of the tropics. Its notes are vane an s in „ ^ it in pairs, but once or 
imitated by the Common Green Bulbul, Phyllornis jerdont. ^^en makes a considerable circuit, 
twice have seen a smaU party together. Jerdon remarks a i n reseating itself on some other 
apparently capturing several insects, before returning to is per ^ no mr Imt that each 
tree 
irently capturing several insects, before returning to its scattered company, but that each 
tree ; he likewise states that three or four are sometimes ^e ^ Drongo perching on the backs of 
returns independently to its own perch. Layard s common in the open about Jaffna. 
cattle apparently apply, as heretofore remarked, to le ac -ii- 
Nidification.-This species breeds in India during the months oj ^Wq^Aprd, branch of 
Is in India during the ^ horizontal branch of 
according to Captain Hutton, a very neat ^ and fine seed-stalks of grasses 
some tad tree. »It is constructed of grey nferad^^^ sometimes a black fibrous 
firmly and neatly interwoven; with the latter it is also usually lined, ait . 
• *' - . • T +r\ni*A 
firmly and neatly interwoven; with the latter it over with spiders’ ^ There 
lichen is used ; externally the materials are kepttogethci ^ salmon-coloured ground streaked, 
are, says Mr. Hume, two types of this bird^s ^ f g ^^^h reddish pink ; the other has a pale 
blotched, and clouded somewhat openly, except at in a broad irregular zone with 
pinkish-white ground, blotched boldly, almost Q .7 to 0-76 inch in breadth, 
brownish red. They vary from 0-85 to I'Ol in length by from 
