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'Black' Fantail

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Subject: 'Black' Fantail
From: (John Leonard)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:14:28 +1000 (EST)
A few years ago I saw several 'Black Fantails' around Dunedin on NZ's south
island, and at the time noted them as what Falla, Simpson and Turbot
describe them as, viz a colur phase of the Grey Fantail (the common ozzie bird).

However in Sibley and Ahlquist's list of the birds of the world they have a
'Black Fantail, Rhipidura atra'. Is this an attempt to make a species out of
this colour phase, or does it refer to another species somewhere in se Asia
or Oceania?




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Dr John Leonard
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ACT 2606, AUSTRALIA

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