RHIPIDURA. >_>i,, 



The Yellow-bellied Fantail has been found at Darjeeling, in Bhootan, be- 

 tween Simla and Mussoorie, and throughout the Indo-Burmese countries. 

 Dr. Jerdon says : "This pretty little Fantail is found in Nepaul, Sikkim, and 

 Bhootan. It affects high altitudes from 6,000 to 8,000 feet and upwards. 

 It frequents the skirts of large woods and low trees by the roadsides, either 

 in pairs or small flocks. It is very lively and active, making short sallies after 

 insects with a low pleasant twitter." A nest brought to him after the young 

 had flown was an exceedingly neat deep cup, made of moss and lichens, also 

 hair and wool, well carded into a compact structure. The breeding season 

 (vide Hume, Nests and Eggs) is May and June. Eggs white, faintly speckled. 



Gen. Rhipidlira. - Vig. and Horsf. 



Plumage of the head full, no elongated crest; bill rather long, depressed, 

 wide, except at tip, which is slightly hooked and notched ; nostrils overhung 

 by long nareal bristles ; rictal bristles long and slender ; wings with the first 4 

 quills unequally graduated ; tail lengthened, rounded or graduated ; tarsus 

 moderate; lateral toes unequal. 



234. Rhipidura albiCOlliS, Vieill N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. xxvii. 

 p. 130 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 317 ; Oa/es, B. Burm. i. p. 266. 

 Rhipidura fuscoventris, Frank!. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 117 ; Jerd. III. Ind. Orn. 

 (text to pi. ii ); Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 935, xv. p. 290; Jerd. B. Ind. 

 i. p. 451, No. 291 ; Cock, and Marsh., Sir. F. 1873, i. p. 352 ; Ball, Sir. F. 

 i8?4, p. 404; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 235. Leucocerca fuscoventris, Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 2OO, No. 291. Leucocerca albicollis, Wald. in 

 Blyth, B. Burm. p. i$2;ffume, Str. F. iii. p. 103; Cripps, Str. F. vii. 

 p. 276; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 92; ix. p. 174 (footnote). The WHITE- 

 THROATED FANTAIL. 



Crown, lores, sides of the head, face and chin deep black ; supercilium 

 white; throat extending to the sides of the neck white, the bases of the 

 feathers black, causing the white to appear dull ; rest of the plumage dark 

 sooty brown, paler on the wing ; tail dark brown, all but the central pair of 

 feathers broadly tipped with white ; bill and legs black. 



Length. 7*5 inches ; wing 2-9 to 3- 1 ; tail 4 ; tarsus 07 to 075 ; culmen 07. 



The young are browner in colour, the feathers tipped with rufescent, the 

 under surface washed with the same at the edges of the feathers. 



Hab. India and Burmah, also Cashmere and throughout the Himalayas. 



The White-throated Fantail is spread over nearly all India. It is found in 

 the Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Central India, the Deccan, parts of 

 South India, in British Burmah and Nepaul. Jerdon says: "It is very abun- 

 dant at Darjeeling in the spring and summer, descending to the valleys and plains 

 in winter. According to Gates it is spread sparingly over the whole of Pegu, 

 and as in India generally a permanent resident. It has been procured in the 



