TERSIPHONE. 465 



Genus TERPSIPHOI^E Gloger, 1827. 



Bill large and depressed; rictal bristles numerous, coarse, and long; 

 head with a full occipital crest; eye surrounded by a wide fleshy wattle; 

 rectrices graduated. The sexes are similar in plumage during the first 

 two years and the birds breed in this immature condition. In the third 

 year the male develops a distinctive plumage and his central rectrices 

 grow to twice the length of the second pair. 



Species. 



a\ Adult male mostly pure white; rectrices white with black shafts. 



affinls (p. 465) 

 a''. Adult male mostly black; rectrices black nigra (p. 466) 



428. TERPSIPHONE AFFINIS (Blyth). 

 MALAY PARADISE FLYCATCHER. 



Tchitrea affinis Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1846), 15, 292. 



Terpsiphone affinis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 349; Hand- 

 List (1901), 3, 263; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 280; 

 McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75. 



Luzon (Cuming). Malay Peninsula, eastern Himalayas, Indo-Chinese Prov- 

 inces, Assam, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



"Adult vide. — General color pure white, with shaft-lines of black, espe- 

 cially distinct on the greater coverts; quills black, externally edged with 

 white, the inner secondaries white, with longitudinal black centers to the 

 feathers; tail-feathers white, with blackish edges and with distinct black 

 shafts; head, sides of face, and entire throat greenish black, without 

 much metallic gloss; remainder of under surface of bod}'^, including the 

 under wing-coverts, pure white; quills blackish below, broadly white 

 along the inner web. Length, 411; culmen, 19; wing, 91; tail, 132; 

 middle tail-feathers, 330; tarsus, 15. 



"Adult female. — General color orange-rufous, brown on the mantle and 

 scapulars; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut; wing-coverts like 

 the back, the greater series orange-rufous, dusliy brown on the inner webs ; 

 alula, primary-coverts, and primaries black, with a narrow edging of 

 orange-rufous, the secondaries more broadly margined, the innermost 

 being entirely orange-rufous, with longitudinal blackish centers; crown 

 and a moderate crest glossy steel-blue; sides of face and a narrow collar 

 around the hind neck and entire throat and breast ashy gray; remainder 

 of the under surface yellowish buff, sides of the body washed with orange, 

 as also the under tail-coverts, which are slightly more rufous ; under wing- 

 coverts rufesccnt, whiter at base; quills dark brown below, rufous along 

 the inner web. Length, 198 ; culmen, 22 ; wing, 90 ; tail, 105 ; tarsus, 15. 



"Male in second plumage. — Very similar to the foregoing, but with a 

 longer tail, the gray on the tliroat and breast darker, and the white on 



