BLACK AND WHITE FANTAIL. 
most secondaries ; primary-coverts and flight- quills rather paler especially on 
the inner webs ; tail black becoming paler on the outer feathers, all the feathers 
obscurely margined with a greenish shade ; rictal bristles black and directed 
forwards ; sides of breast soot-black with whitish tips to some of the feathers ; 
middle of breast, abdomen, and sides of body white ; thighs black with white 
tips to the feathers ; under tail-coverts cream colour with a black subapical band 
to the long feathers ; axillaries soot-black ; under wing-coverts white with dark 
bases ; under-surface of flight-quills pale brown ; lower aspect of tail black 
becoming brown at the tip. Collected at Fulham, South Australia, in January 
1912. 
Immature. Crown of head, nape, sides of face, back, wings, scapulars, upper tail- 
coverts and tail black ; a white patch above the eye which is continued along 
the sides of the crown and more or less concealed ; the feathers on the nape and 
upper wing-coverts tipped with rust colour, becoming darker and inclining to 
deep chestnut on the back, upper tail-coverts, and tips of the innermost second- 
aries ; flight-quills hair-brown on the inner webs ; tail-feathers uniform black 
both above and below ; rictal bristles black ; throat, fore-neck, and sides of the 
breast black with whitish tips to the feathers ; breast, abdomen, sides of body 
and under tail-coverts cream-white ; thighs soot-black, the feathers tipped with 
white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts black with white tips to some of the 
latter, the marginal coverts whitish ; under-surface of flight-quills greyish- 
brown. Collected at Normanton, Queensland, on the 30tli of January, 1914. 
Immature. Crown of head, sides of face, upper back, innermost secondaries, and upper 
tail-coverts soot-black, the feathers narrowly fringed with ferruginous, more 
broadly on the lower back and upper tail-coverts, some of the feathers on the 
lower back silky-white ; wings dark brown with bufl or buffy-white tips to the 
coverts, inner webs of flight-quills hair-brown ; tail black both above and below ; 
a white supraloral streak which is continued over the eye and along the sides of 
the crown and joining on the nape where it becomes buffy- white ; rictal bristles 
black ; throat greyish-white with dusky bases to the feathers ; sides of breast 
and axillaries black with whitish tips to the feathers ; abdomen and sides of the 
body white ; thighs and under tail-coverts isabefline ; under wing-coverts white 
with dark bases to the feathers ; under-surface of flight-quills pale brown. Col- 
lected at Normanton, Queensland, on the 13th of November, 1913. 
Immature. Crown of head, nape, sides of face, back, and upper tail-coverts sodt-black 
with obsolete rufous edgings to the feathers ; a broad line of buffy-white along 
the sides of the crown ; upper wing-coverts dark hair-brown margined with rust 
colour at the tips ; innermost secondaries like the back, remainder of the flight- 
quills uniform hair-brown ; tail uniform blackish-brown ; rictal bristles scarcely 
perceptible ; throat soot-black with greyish tips to some of the feathers like those 
on the sides of the breast, thighs, and marginal under wing-coverts ; middle of 
breast white ; abdomen and under tail-coverts cream colour ; under-surface of 
flight-quills pale hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown. Collected at 
Herbert Yale, Queensland, in November 1882. 
2V est. Cup-shaped. Composed of strips of bark, held together by spider’s web, especially 
on the top, and held in place on the branch by the same material. Outside 
measurements 2 \ to 3 inches by 1| to 2 deep. Inside 2 \ by 1 J deep. 
Eggs. Clutch, three to four. Ground-colour cream to yellowish-brown with a darker 
zone on the larger end. 18-20 mm. by 14-15. 
Breeding-season. August to December or January. 
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