Genus DISSEMTJRUS. 
Bill stout, the culmen more acutely keeled than in Buchanga, as also higher at the base ; 
forehead furnished with a tuft of frontal plumes, the anterior ones projecting forwards, and the 
posterior more or less curved back over the forehead. Wings with the 4th and 5th quills the 
longest, and the 3rd shorter than the 6th. Tail with the outer feathers prolonged more or less, 
in some species with the web complete and slightly upturned, in others with the shaft denuded 
of the webs to within a short distance of the tip. 
Of large size. Plumage highly glossed above and below ; the feathers of the hind neck 
“ hackled.” 
DISSEMUEUS LOPHOEHINUS. 
(THE CEYLONESE CRESTED DRONGO.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
JDicrurus lopliorhinus, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. ix. p. 587 (1817); Gray, Hand-1. B. i. 
p. 285 (1869). 
Dicrums edoUiformis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, xvi. p. 297 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 
p. 202 (1849) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 124 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 129 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 305; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 17. 
Dicrurus lophorhinm. Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 285. 
Bissemums lophorhinus, Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 439. 
Bissemuroides edoUiformis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, hi. p. 256 (1877); Tweeddale, Ibis, 1878, p. 78. 
Le Bro-ngup, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. pi. 173. 
Jungle King-Crow, in Ceylon. 
Kowda, Sinhalese ; Kaputa-haya, Sinhalese in Southern Province. 
Niger, chalybeo-viriJi niten.s, cauda valdo forficata, rectricibus nigris chalybeo-viridi marginatis, rectrice extima longiore 
et ad apicera paullo recurvatfi. : crista frontal! densa, setis nasalibus longis antice directis et plumis cristoe posticis 
paiillo recurvatis : subtus niger, chalybeo nitens, plumis prsepeetoralibus chalybeis vix lanceolatis : rostro et pedibus 
nigris : iride brunnescenti-rubra. 
Adrdt male. Length 13-4 to 14-1 inches ; wing 5-6 to 6-0 ; tail — outer feathers 7-2 to 7-6, central feathers 2-3 to 2-5 
shorter; tarsus I'O to I'l ; mid toe 0-75, claw (straight) 0-3 ; hind toe 0-5, claw (straight) 0-4 ; bill to gape 1-35 
to 1-4 ; limit of the length of frontal feathers about 0-5. 
AduU female. Some\\(hat smaller than the male. Length 13-25 inches ; wing 5-0 to 5-6 ; tail 7-0. 
In this species the tail assumes a constant character, and does not vary at all. It is shaped as in the genus Buchanga ; 
the web is the same width throughout, hroad and flat, the outer portion only slightly upraised, but not sufficiently 
to be called curved. 
The anterior frontal plumes are directed forward, and the posterior ones are erect, but have no tendency to curve back 
over the forehead as in D. paradiseus. 
Iris dull brownish red or dark yellowdsh red ; hill, legs, and feet black. 
Plumage black, highly glossed with a metallic lustre, which on the head, hind neck, throat, and chest is of a steel-blue 
tinge, and on the back, wing-coverts, and outer webs of the tail-feathers dark green ; quills black, the outer w-ebs 
glossed ; bases of the feathers at the sides of the rump greyish, generally showing on the surface of the plumage ,- 
flanks and abdomen brownish black, scarcely glossed ; the under tail-coverts glossed at the tips ; the frontal 
plumes in fine specimens reach to within 0-4 of the tip of the culmen ; the feathers of the hind neck are pointed 
and to some extent elongated. 
