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White-browed Fantail




  Name White-browed Fantail
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Aves
  Ordo Passeriformes
  Familia Dicruridae
  Genus '' Rhipidura ''
  Species '''''R aureola'''''
  Binomial ''Rhipidura aureola''
  Binomial Authority Lesson , 1830


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

  • ''Birds of India'' by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6