FANTAIL. 
fringed with white. Bill and feet black ; eyes dark brown. Total length 152 mm. ; 
culmen 7, wing 81, tail 88, tarsus 16. Figured. Collected near Kuranda, North 
Queensland, on the 7th of December, 1912. 
Adult female. From the same locality, similar to the male. 
Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, hind-neck, entire back, scapulars and upper 
tail-coverts pale slate-grey with a tinge of fawn colour on the back ; wings hair- 
brown, the lesser coverts tipped with fawn colour, the median, greater, primary- 
coverts, and innermost secondaries tipped with white ; inner margins of flight-quills 
white ; middle tail-feathers blackish-brown, becoming paler and fading to greyish- 
brown on the outer ones, which are extensively tipped with white, the shafts also 
white, and the outer web of the outermost pair entirely white ; lores dusky ; the 
feathers surrounding the eye and sides of the face intermixed with pale fawn colour ; 
rictal bristles black, numerous, and directed forward ; chin and throat dull white, 
which extends on to the sides of the neck at the back of the ear-coverts, where it 
is buffv-white ; breast and abdomen fawn colour, becoming white on the vent 
and flanks ; under tail-coverts pale grey ; axillaries and under wing-coverts buffy- 
white ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with pale inner edges ; lower 
aspect of tail dark brown with white shafts and white tips to the feathers. Col- 
lected at Point Torment, North-west Australia, on the 12th of March, 1912. 
Adult female. From the same locality, similar to the above male. 
The following description is taken from the type specimen of RMpidura phasiana 
De Vis which I drew up in 1907. 
General colour above ashy-brown, with an ochreous tinge ; the wing-coverts dusky- 
brown, with large white spots at the ends ; primary-coverts dusky-brown fringed 
with white ; quills dusky-brown ; the innermost secondaries edged with white ; 
upper tail-coverts and central tail-feathers dull ashy-brown with dusky cross-bars 
under certain lights ; remainder of tail-feathers dusky-brown with white shafts 
and a considerable amount of white towards the ends which are also white, the 
outermost feather being white for nearly the whole length with the base dark 
brown ; crown of the head somewhat darker ashy than the back with a slight 
evidence of a pale ochreous collar on the nape ; lores conspicuous with a faintly 
indicated white eyebrow ; feathers below the eye and ear-coverts dusky-ash 
colour ; cheeks and throat white followed by a shade of ashy-grey on the fore-neck 
remainder of under-surface from the fore-neck downwards pale isabelline-buff. 
Immature male. Crown of head and sides of face ash-grey with more or less white over 
and behind the eye ; hind-neck, back, and upper tail-coverts rather darker with 
white intermixed here and there and tinged with ochreous on the middle of the 
back ; upper wing-coverts greyish-brown broadly tipped with white more 
narrowly on the primary-coverts ; flight-quills hair-brown rather paler on the 
margins of the inner webs and edged with white on the outer webs and tips of 
the innermost secondaries ; tail, dark brown with conspicuous white shafts to 
the feathers and broadly margined with white on the apical portion ; rictal bristles 
black and directed forward ; chin and throat white ; breast pale fawn colour ; 
abdomen, flanks and tail-coverts white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts buffy- 
white ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail dark 
brown with white shafts and extensively marked with white on the apical portion ; 
the outer web of the outermost feathers entirely white. Collected at Point 
Torment on the 17th of January, 1911. 
Nestling male. Crown of head, sides of face and back dusky-brown with an indicated 
narrow line of rufous over the eye and along the sides of the crown, the feathers 
on the fore-part of the crown minutely edged with rufous ; scapulars similar but. 
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