Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1903),
14, 12; Novit. Zool. (1906), 13, 758, pl. 2, fig. 1; McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 74.
Tá-din, Bagobo.
Mindanao (Goodfellow, Waterstradt, Mearns).
Adult male.--Entire head, chin, and throat black, with a white line
over each eye; fore breast white; rest of under parts cinnamon-rufous
and lighter than the cinnamon-rufous of back and rump; wings, tail, and
upper tail-coverts chestnut, but primaries and primary-coverts blackish
brown, edged with chestnut. Wing, 74; tail, 85; culmen from base, 15;
bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 17. "Iris reddish brown; bill all black;
feet dark purplish gray; claws black. Length, 177." (Mearns.)
I have not seen the female of the black and cinnamon fantail but the
sexes are probably similar in colors. This fine species is found on
Mount Apo.