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Photo by PrinPrince
Photo taken: Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Alternative name: Yellow-bellied Fairy-Fantail

Chelidorhynx hypoxantha

Rhipidura hypoxantha

[edit] Identification

11.5–12.5 cm. Yellow forehead, brow, and underparts,olive-grey upperparts, black mask, long, white-tipped gray tail. Female's mask is dark olive.

[edit] Distribution

Northern India, southeastern Tibet, southwestern China, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, northern Bangladesh, northern Myanmar, northern Thailand, and northern Vietnam.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
It was formerly placed in the genus Rhipidura but recent research showed it to be a Fairy Flycatcher and not a Fantail.

[edit] Habitat

Moist evergreen forest and jungle.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes small flying insects.

It builds a compact deep cup, attached to the upperside of a branch. 3 cream to pinkish-cream eggs with tiny dark reddish speckles, are laid.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Thread in the taxonomy forum discussing this species.

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