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The White-browed Fantail, ''Rhipidura aureola'', is a small Passerine Bird . It was previously classified with the Old World Flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but the paradise flycatchers, monarch flycatchers and Australasian Fantails are now normally grouped with the Drongo s in the family Dicruridae , which has most of its members in Australasia and tropical southern Asia . The White-browed Fantail breeds across tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Vietnam . This species is found in forest and other woodland. Three Egg s are laid in a small cup nest in a tree. The adult White-browed Fantail is about 18 cm long. It has dark brown upperparts, with white spots on the wings, and whitish underparts. The fan-shaped tail is edged in white, and the long white supercilia meet on the forehead. The throat and eyemask are blackish and border whitish moustachial stripes. The White-browed Fantail is Insectivorous , and often fans its tail as it moves through the undergrowth. REFERENCE
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