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the belly purer and less fulvous. Length, 246; wing, 89; culmen, 22; 
tail, 102; middle tail-feathers, 208; tarsus, 15.” (Sharpe.) 
“Included in this list with sosfdoubt on the strength of a specimen 
mentioned by Hartert.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
429. TERPSIPHONE NIGRA McGregor. 
BLACK PARADISE FLYCATCHER, 
Terpsiphone nigra McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 340, pls. 
1 to 3. 
Ti-uay-uay, Batan. 
Batan (McGregor). 
Adult male (type).—Black, with a slight purplish blue gloss; middle 
of abdomen white; under tail-coverts black with white bases and with 
traces of clay-brown along the edges; wings and tail black with some 
purplish blue gloss on exposed margins. Iris brown; bill, legs, and 
wide fleshy eye-wattle bright blue; nails paler blue; inside of mouth 
pale green. Length in flesh, 383; wing, 91; central rectrices, 282; 
second pair of rectrices, 131; outermost and shortest pair of rectrices, 
65; culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 13; tarsus, 15; middle toe 
with claw, 15; longest crest-feathers, 15. 
Nearly adult male-—Similar to the adult, but some feathers of lower 
back and a few of the inner remiges edged with chestnut; middle of 
lower breast, axillars, and wing-lining mottled with white; abdomen 
white; under tail-coverts terra-cotta yellow with small dusky patches. 
Length, 376; wing, 90; tail-feathers: longest, 267; second, 127; shortest, 
80; culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 13; tarsus, 16.5; middle 
toe with claw, 16.5; longest crest-feathers, 16. 
Male, first year—Head, neck, throat, and breast glossy black; mantle, 
back, and rump bright chestnut; upper tail-coverts chestnut and glossy 
black (mixed plumage) ; lower breast gray; abdomen white; flanks dull 
chestnut ; under tail-coverts white washed with terra cotta; alula, prima- 
ries and primary-coverts blackish brown; primaries and secondary-coverts 
edged with chestnut; secondaries edged with rusty brown; rectrices dark 
brown, slightly chestnut, the outer pair minutely tipped with white. 
Length, 190; wing, 85; tail, 85; outermost rectrices, 71; culmen from 
base, 18.5; bill from nostril, 13. 
Adult female.—Differs from the adult male, first year, in having 
mantle, back, tail-coverts, and secondary-coverts reddish brown instead . 
of chestnut. Length, 190; wing, 85; tail, 81; outermost rectrices, 74; 
culmen from base, 20; bill from nostril, 13. Another female is duller, 
having the mantle, back, and rump decidedly grayer. Length, 189; 
wing, 85; tail, 88; culmen from base, 17; bill from nostril, 12. 
