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brown. The crown is also brown with a few whitish feathers in the crest. The 
narrow black moustachial streak surrounding the ear-coverts and joining the 
crown is light brown ; the hinder parts of cheeks and the ear-coverts are white 
as usual. The crimson tuft of feathers springing from the lower eye-lids, is 
retained in a very small spot just there. In a normal bird this crimson passes 
over the ear-coverts, but in the present specimen it does not do so. Sides of 
neck and a broad crescent interrupted in the middle of the breast, which should 
have been brownish black, have become light brown, the crescent ending in 
just a faint tinge. The undertail-coverts retain their normal crimson colour, 
at the edges, however, it is lighter. Upper plumage, the flanks and thighs, as 
also the lower plumage, are white with a tinge of bluish ; the tail is completely 
white. Back and wings are white, the latter washed with a faint light-orange. 
The colour of the bill, claws and legs has also been affected. The bill and 
claws are blackish brown, the apex of the bill being whitish, while the legs are 
pinkish brown, Iris light-brown. 
SATYA CHURN LAW. 
‘CaLcuTta, 3rd June 1921. 
No. XVII.—THE WHITE-SPOTTED FANTAIL FLYCATCHER 
(RHIPIDURA PECTORALIS). 
This pretty little active flycatcher is common in the Central Provinces as well 
as in other parts of Western and Southern India where it, replaces its near re- 
lative, the White-throated Fantail, the common species of the sub-Himalaya 
and Eastern portions of the Empire. It is essentially a bird of shady wooded 
nalas and ravines but is also found in gardens and shady groves and is especially 
fond of the big thorny bamboo. In the Central Provinces they breed in March 
and April and possibly again later. The nest is a neat little inverted cone of 
fine vegetable fibre felted together with cobwebs and lined with fine grass. 
