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Vanuatu Streaked Fantail
Rhipidura spilodera Gray, GR, 1870
Rhipiduridae — Fantails
Vanuatu Streaked Fantail, Rhipidura spilodera, is a passerine of the family Rhipiduridae found in Vanuatu, from Vanua Lava in the Banks Islands to Efate. It is a forest bird of subtropical or tropical moist lowland woodland, and it stays in dense cover rather than open ground. The species was first described by Gray in 1870. It is a small bird with a long, fanned tail, white underparts, dark grey-brown upperparts, and bold dark spotting and streaking on the breast and lower throat, with white marks before and behind the eye.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Rhipiduridae — Fantails
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Vanua Lava (e Banks Is.) to Efate (sc Vanuatu)
