58 GARDEN AND AVIARY BIRDS. 
not to be captured except for purposes of export; it 
would be a charming bird to acclimatize in warm 
tropical islands where insectivorous birds are wanted. 
The breeding-season of the bird is from May to July, 
and the nest is small and open, built in a branch. Four 
or five pink eggs with red spots are laid. 
There is a rather pretty native legend about this 
Flycatcher, somewhat to the following effect. Once, so 
goes the story, it was a Bird of Paradise indeed, snow-white 
in every feather, and with all its twelve tail-feathers 
in the form of long ribbon-like plumes. But it gave 
itself such airs that Allah, to punish its presumption, 
deprived it of its beautiful plumage. On the bird’s 
repentance, however, it was allowed still to carry two 
of the cherished streamers, though its face was 
blackened to remind it of its former shame. 
Tue Fantait FrycatcuHer (Rhipidura albifrontata) is a 
bird of somewhat different type and habits. Its bill is 
rather shorter, and very decidedly bristly at the root; its 
legs are a little longer than those of Flycatchers generally, 
and its tail of moderate length, but broad and rounded. 
It is about seven inches long and slender in form ; the 
plumage is dark grey-brown above and white below. It 
has a pair of broad white eyebrows on a black head, and 
the tail is broadly tipped with white, so that, on the 
whole, it is a strikingly coloured bird. The hen is merely 
a little duller than the cock, but the young are marked 
with buff on the back. 
This bird is found all over the Empire, but does not / 
go very far up the Himalayas. It is a most charming 
