The Agricultural Journal of India September 1921

S. THE Paradise Flycatcher is probably one of the most striking of the birds that occur in India and is easily recognizable at least in the case of the adult male by the two extremely long tail-feathers which in some localities have earned their owner the name of Ribbon-bird. [...] This group of birds is characterized by the presence of numerous long hairs stretching from the forehead over the nostrils these hairs lying horizontally and reaching in all cases beyond the nostrils and sometimes nearly to the end of the bill. [...] Three species of Terpsiphone are recorded in the Fauna volume on Birds and of these T. paradisi is recognizable by its long and pointed crest reaching to the upper part of the back whilst the crest is short and rounded not reaching beyond the nape in the case of the Burmese Paradise Flycatcher (T. [...] The Paradise Flycatcher occurs throughout the whole of the Indian Region from Afghanistan and Kashmir to Ceylon but in the North-East eastwards of the Brahmaputra it is replaced by the Burmese species. [...] After the third autumn moult these long feathers grow again and the plumage graduallyTHE PARADISE FLYCATCHER 481 begins to turn white (with the exception of the feathers of the head and crest which remain black) the wings and tail being the first portions to be affected by the change ; the adult male bird is thus partly chestnut and partly white for a time and it is not until after the moult o