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C. The Grey Fan-tails. — Length 7 inches ; head blackish ; rest 

 of upper surfaces and sides ashy-grey ; tail blackish with 

 broad white tip to the outermost feather; throat white, 

 a broad band of ashy-grey across the fore-neck and chest; 

 centre of body light bufif ; white under the tail. 



The Northern Fantall, B. setosa {isura, gularis). — North Australia, New 

 Guinea and Bismarcli Archipelago, Waigiou. 



Front life. C. P. Eivane. 



White-shafted Fantail feeding young: Rhipidura alhiscapa. 



D. The Black and White Fantails. — Length nearly 8 inches. 

 Above black with brown on the wings; tail black; throat, 

 neck, thighs, and sides of face and breast black ; remainder 

 of under surface white. 



The Black and White Fantail, M. tricolor. — All Australia, New Guinea, 

 Bismarck Archipelago, Solomons, Moluccas. 



The White-shafted Fantail is one of the small birds most 

 frequently noticed when one is travelling in the bush, since from 

 its inquisitiveness and social disposition it will come near and 

 fl.y round you in the camp or on the track. "While in the air it 



