Jerome also wrote about him in De Viris Illustribus (c.
modestus originated in Australia and was first seen in British waters, in Chichester Harbour, during the Second World War.
The subspecies D. a. modestus (PrÃncipe) together with D. a. coracinus and D. a. atactus (Bioko and mainland west and central Africa from Guinea east to western Kenya and south to Angola) is usually split as a separate species, the Velvet-mantled Drongo D. modestus, (Hartlaub, 1849).
Modestus Fernando has taught undergraduate courses on trends in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the University of Colombo.