BLACK FANTAIL. 131 
not whether they came from Australia or the East 
Indies. 
The size, for a Flycatcher, is rather large ; the 
total length being eight inches and a half. Nearly 
the whole of the upper plumage is of a deep and 
uniform black, which envelopes the head, chin, 
and half of the neck beneath, the quills alone are 
brown; a pure white line commences above the 
lores and passes over the eye, and all those wing - 
covers which are nearest to the carpus have a round 
white terminal spot ; the sides of the neck, breast, 
and flanks, are of the same deep black as the up- 
per part, but we cannot trace any indication of this 
colour advancing so far on the breast as to form an 
obsolete or interrupted pectoral band. The under 
plumage, from the lower part of the neck, is en- 
tirely white ; inner wing-covers black, with a few 
white specks. 
Total length, 85 inches ; bill, gape, § ; front, j 9 n ; 
wings, 3^ ; tail beyond, 21 ; from the base, 4J ; 
tarsus, nearly 1 . 
As the fourth type in the circle, and following 
the last, we place the sub-genus 
