Though denied fluency of utterance, the spangled drongo has no rival in the peculiar character of the notes and calls over which he has secure copyright.
Drongo shrikes in habits, and in forked tail: as well as in lengthened body?
The fauna contains two or three squirrels, one of which is the small one of Upper Assam, Trocheloideus, the lesser Edolius or Drongo minor.
The Spangled Drongo is the Australian representative of a family of birds spread from Africa, Madagascar, and India up to Japan, and through the islands to Australia.
My lack of knowledge of the habits of the drongo cuckoo is, however, not my chief reason for desiring to write about it.
Even if it be correct, we are really very little further than we were before towards an explanation of the colours and shape of either the king-crow or the drongo cuckoo.
The consequence is that every book on natural history trots out our friend the drongo cuckoo as an example of mimicry.
This being so, it is quite unnecessary for me to describe the drongo cuckoo; it is the image of a king-crow.
The drongo cuckoo is as like the king-crow as one pea is to another.
When you see such a bird you may safely bet on its being a king-crow; the off-chance of its proving a drongo cuckoo may be neglected by all but the ultra-cautious.
As the hen drongo is a bird capable of looking after herself, even when incubating, there is no necessity for her to be protectively coloured.
The drongo is black because it is built that way; its tendency is to produce black feathers.
May not the blackness and the forked tail of the drongo cuckoo have arisen in the same way as they arose in the king-crow?
I do not believe that natural selection has any direct connection with the nigritude of the drongo cuckoo.
The drongo builds earlier, for it is usually feeding its young while the oriole is incubating.
The drongo cuckoo may be called an ass in a lion's skin, or a lion in an ass's skin, whichever way one looks at things.
The drongo appears well adapted at Rota, where it prefers cultivated areas and the bombed village sites to thick woodlands.
This drongo was introduced from Formosa to Rota by the Japanese South Seas Development Company (Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha) apparently in 1935.
In general appearance the southern drongo resembles a Chibia, but the tail is even less forked than in D.
King-Crow or Drongo 232 This very conspicuous black bird (Dicrurus ater), ranging from Africa to China, is a striking feature of the landscape wherever it occurs.
On the other hand, a captive Racket-tailed drongo rejected toads when offered to it.
The note of the ashy drongo differs considerably from that of the king-crow: otherwise the habits of the two species are very similar.
On the higher slopes, however, it is largely replaced by the ashy drongo (Dicrurus longicaudatus).
The drongo shrikes of the same regions belong to the related family Dicruridæ.
The only immediately noticeable difference in the makeup of the avifauna after destruction of the forest canopy was the appearance of the drongo Dicrurus aeneus.
This drongo was seen only once, when a flock of three to five was feeding late one evening in a clearing where the trees had been cut down the day before.
This drongo was seen in areas where the trees had been cut, sitting on limbs and darting out after insects.
The white-bellied drongo is so rare in the peninsula of India that not one of our ornithologists has given us anything like a full account of its habits, and no one appears to have discovered the nest in India.
Oates has since constituted the birds which have less white on the lower parts a distinct species, which he calls the white-vented drongo (Dicrurus leucopygialis).
The white-vented drongo is their king crow--the bird that lords over the corvi.
Since the white-bellied drongo appears to be quite as pugnacious as its black cousin, and to have almost identical habits, it is strange that it should be so uncommon in India.
It would seem that there is something in the constitution of the white-bellied drongo which enables it to outnumber the king crows proper in Ceylon, but which prevents it from becoming abundant in the peninsula of India.
The bhimraj, or larger racket-tailed drongo (Dissemurus paradiseus), is the most perfect example of the fancy or ornamental class.
In the Western Province of Ceylon it is replaced by a drongo having less white in the plumage.
Comparing many nests of both species together, the only difference appears to be that the nests of the Hair-crested Drongo are slightly larger on the whole.
The Black Drongo or Common King-Crow lays throughout India, at any rate in the plain country; it does not appear to breed either in the Himalayas or the Nilghiris at any height exceeding 5000 feet.
Thompson says:--"This elegant Drongo is somewhat common in our lower Kumaon ranges.
From Sikhim Mr. Gammie writes:--"I have found the Bronzed Drongo breeding from April to June in the low hot valleys at about 2000 feet above the sea.
First and foremost among these is the king-crow or black drongo (Dicrurus ater).
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