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summer, yellow forehead in winter, and 

 gray back at all seasons, in the male ; 

 the female similar, but paler, and more 

 of an olive yellow ; immature birds 

 have the head and back a uniform 

 brownish gray, a dull white eyebrow, 

 and the under parts yellowish white. 



Family, Enlcuridae, The Forktails. 



Forktails are trim, dainty birda 

 tetween six and eleven inches long, with 

 stout, straight and rather long bills, and 

 strong legs. Their moderately rounded 

 wings have ten primaries, the outer one 

 being well developed. In typical forms 

 the tail is very long, and well developed, 

 but in the Little Forktail (M. scouleri), 

 it is short and nearly square. This is 

 a small group of three genera, and only 

 a dozen species, only two of which 

 reach the Yangtse Valley. 



CHINESE FOEKTAIL. 



ENICURUS SINENSIS, GOULD. 



Description. — Length eleven and 

 one half inches. Bill black. Tarsus 

 almost white. Iris brown. 



Forehead, abdomen, under tail 

 coverts, and rump white ; a white 

 letter V is formed on the back by the 

 rump and a white line across the 

 tertials and wing coverts ; remainder 

 of the plumage jet black, excepting 

 white tips on the tertials and all the 

 tail quills ; outer pair of tail feathers 

 on each side entirely white; tail 

 deeply forked. 



Immature birds have the head neck, 

 and back chocolate brown ; chin and 

 throat gray ; breast brown with 

 yellowish streaks ; otherwise like the 

 adults. 



