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BLACK FANTAIL. 
Lencocirca laticauda , Swains. 
PLATE XI. 
Plumage above, and half way down the throat, deep black ; 
stripe over the eye, spots on the wing-covcrs, and under 
plumage white *, quills brown. 
This species, remarkable for its broad and perfectly 
black tail, makes a very near approach to the Rhi- 
pidura motacilloides* ; but it cannot possibly be the 
same, for the length of the wing, in that species, is 
stated to be only three inches and one-fifth, where- 
as the wing of this measures almost four inches. 
Neither has this any appearance of an interrupted 
pectoral hand of black, while the white spots, on 
the wing-covers, seen in our present species, are not 
noticed in the account given of the other. 
Although this species does not exhibit the cha- 
racter so prevalent in this sub -genus of a white 
tipped tail, it nevertheless possesses all the others, 
namely, a bill of ordinary length, stout legs, and 
broad tail-feathers. I possess two specimens ; but 
having purchased them with other birds, I know 
* Horsf. & Vigors. Linn. Tr. xv. 248. 
