Definition of "king-crow" []

• A drongo-shrike of the genus Dicrurus, as the Indian finga, D. macrocercus, remarkable for its elongated forked tail and for the courage and address with which, like the king-bird of the United States, it attacks other birds. The term is extended to various other drongos of the family Dieruridæ. (noun)

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