DRONGO or King Crow, an Old World group of birds of the family Dicruridae; the plumage is usually black and the tail forked. The drongos inhabit Africa, south-eastern Asia and the Malayan region to Australia. The largest genus, Dicrurus, in cludes the black drongo (D. ater), the ashy drongo (D. longi caudatus), and the white-bellied drongo. Drongos are mimicked by three species of drongo-cuckoos (Surniculus), which lay their eggs in the drongos' nests.