Rhipidura hyperythra Gray, GR, 1858

Nominate race has face and upperparts dark bluish-grey, crown darker, short supercilium, line on ear-coverts and stripe white, upperwing bluish –grey, greater and medium upper-wing-coverts tipped with a small whitish spots, tail dark grey, two central pairs rectrices umarked, remaining feather with white tips, amount of increasing outwards, broad on outermost rectrix, chin white, throat black, underparts rufous or chesnut, iris dark brown, bill black, pale lower mandible, legs dark brown. Sexes alike. Juvenile is like adult, except that wings-coverts tipped rufous, band on upper breast pale grey and lower breast and belly paler rufous. Muelleri – more white on throat. Castaneothorax – similar, white tips of rectrices larger.