Oeder PASSERES.] [Fam. MUSCICAPIDjE. 



KHIPIDURA FLABELLIFEEA. 



(PIED FANTAIL.) 



Fan-tailed Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 340, pi. xlix. (1783). 

 Muscicapa flabellifera, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 943 (1788, ex Lath.). 

 EMpiditra flabellifera, Gray, in Dieff. Trav. ii., App. p. 190 (1843). 

 Muscicapa ventilabrum, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 86 (1844). 

 Bhipidura albiscapa, Cass. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 150 (1858, nee Gould). 



Native names. 

 Piwaiwaka, Tiwaiwaka, Piwakawaka, and Tiwakawaka. 



Ad. supra olivascenti-brunneus, pileo nigricante : linea supraoculari albida : tectricibus alarum brunneis, 

 olivaceo lavatis, albido terminatis : remigibus nigricanti-brunneis extus dorsi colore lavatis : cauda sor- 

 dide alba, scapis pure albis, rectricibus duabus ceutralibus nigrieautibus ad apicem albidis, reliquis extus 

 brunnescenti-nigris, penna extima omnino albida : facie laterali pileo concolori : gula albida : torque 

 pectorali nigra : subtus aurantiaco-fulvus, pectore superiore et subcaudalibus pallidioribus : cruribus 

 nigricantibus : rostro nigro : pedibus brunnescenti-nigris : iride nigra. 



Juv. similis adulto, sed supra magis brunnescens : gutture grisescenti-albo : corpore reliquo subtus sordide ful- 

 vescente : torque pectorali absente : tectricibus alarum fulvido apicatis, et secundariis extus eodem colore 



margmatis. 



Adult. Crown, nape, and sides of tbe bead sooty black ; the whole of the back, rump, and upper surface of 

 wings dark olive-brown ; the small wing-coverts tipped with fulvous white ; rictal bristles black ; throat 

 and mark over the eyes greyish white ; across the fore neck and upper part of breast a broad band of 

 sooty black ; lower part of breast and all the under surface fulvous, tinged with cinnamon, the base of 

 the feathers plumbeous ; quills dark olive-brown, with paler shafts, the inner secondaries edged with 

 fulvous white ; the two middle tail-feathers brownish black, with pure white shafts, and tipped with 

 greyish white ; the lateral feathers greyish white and, with the exception of the outermost one on each 

 side, margined on their outer webs with brownish black, all having pure white shafts. Irides and bill 

 black ; feet blackish brown. Total length 6'5 inches ; extent of wings 8 ; wing, from flexure, 2*75 ; 

 tail 4 ; bill, along the ridge *3, along the edge of lower mandible '4 ; tarsus "7; middle toe and claw -6 ; 

 hind toe and claw "5. 



Young. The young bird has the throat greyish white ; the breast and all the under surface dark fulvous 

 brown; the small wing-coverts are largely tipped and the secondaries narrowly edged with fulvous 

 brown, and the plumage of the back is more or less tinged with the same colour. 



Obs. I have observed birds in the young plumage as late as the middle of March ; but the adult livery is 

 certainly assumed at the first moult. 



The Pied Fantail, ever flitting about with broadly expanded tail, and performing all manner 



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