TERSIPHONE. 465 
Genus TERPSIPHONE 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. Im 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. 
affinis (p. 465) 
a*, Adult male mostly black; rectrices black..............-2.---2-----:-eec--e0-+- nigra (p. 466) 
428. TERPSIPHONE AFFINIS (Blyth). 
MALAY PARADISE FLYCATCHER, 
Tchitrea affinis BuyTH, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1846), 15, 292. 
Terpsiphone affinis Suarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 349; Hand- 
List (1901), 3, 263; Oates and Rei, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 280; 
McGReEGoR and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 75. 
Luzon (Cuming). Malay Peninsula, eastern Himalayas, Indo-Chinese Prov- 
inces, Assam, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
“Adult male.-—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 body, 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, dusky 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 rufescent, 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 throat and breast darker, and the white on 
