THE LESSER BLACK-BACKED FORKTAIL. 
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Length 8 inches, tail 3*5^ wing 3'7, tarsus I'l, bill from gape 1. The 
female is smaller. 
The Chestnut-backed Forktail has been found in the extreme southern 
portion of Tenasserim about Malewoon_, and also at the foot of Nwalabo 
mountain_, considerably further north. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula, and occurs in Sumatra, Java and 
Borneo. 
This species and the next are remarkable for their comparati^^ely short 
tail, which is about the length of the wing. In all the other Burmese 
species the tail is considerably longer than the wing. 
29. HYDKOCICHLA FRONTALIS. 
THE LESSER BLACK-BACKED FORKTAIL. 
Enicurus frontalis, Bl. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 156. Henicurus frontalis, Elwes, Ibis, 
1872, p. 259, pi. ix. ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 258 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 248 ; Tweedd. 
Ibis, 1877, p. 310 ; Hu7ne Sj- Bav, S. F. vi. p. 360 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 103. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and front of crown white ; 
head, neck, breast, back and lesser wing-coverts black ; rump, belly, vent, 
upper and under tail-coverts white ; greater wing-coverts black, lipped with 
white ; primaries black ; secondaries and tertiaries black with the bases 
white ; two outer pairs of tail-feathers white, the others black with white 
bases and tips. 
The young have no white on the head, and the general colour is sooty 
black where the adult is pure black. 
Bill black ; legs flesh-colour. 
Length 8 inches, tail 3*7, wing 3 '5, tarsus 1*1, bill from nostril to 
tip -51. 
The Lesser Black-backed Forktail has occurred only in the extreme 
south of Tenasserim at Bankasoon, where both Mr. Davison and my own 
collectors secured specimens. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula and occurs in Borneo and Sumatra. 
