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Alternative name: Plumbeous Redstart
- Rhyacornis fuliginosa
Identification
5.5" (14 cm.) Strong sexual dimorphism. Male: tail, rump, and vent are reddish-rufous, the remainder of the plumage a rich, dark slate-blue. Female: bases of outer tail feathers, rump, and vent white, remainder of tail black; grey above, pale eye-ring; wings black with white tips; throat, breast, and belly plumage white with dark feather edges, giving a strongly scaled appearance. Both sexes have black bills, feet brown. Male has a solid rufous tail, lacking the black central tail feathers of other redstart species. Female somewhat resembles Little Forktail, but the latter has a white crown and a white wing-band extending to the back.
Distribution
Himalayas from Pakistan to N Indochina, Hainan and Taiwan, northward through all of eastern and central China as far as Hebei Province and Beijing.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Fast-flowing alpine streams
Behaviour
Song a rapid metallic streee-treee-tree-treeeh, call note a sharp ziet, ziet.
