Fantail

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.

II. Fantail ·noun Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris