Brown-capped Fantail
The brown-capped fantail (''Rhipidura diluta'') is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae. It is found in the Lesser Sunda Islands The Lesser Sunda Islands or nowadays known as Nusa Tenggara Islands ( id, Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, formerly ) are an archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up t ... ( Sumbawa and Flores). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. References

Rhipidura, brown-capped fantail Birds of the Lesser Sunda Islands Birds of Flores Birds described in 1864, brown-capped fantail Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Rhipiduridae-stub ...
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. His 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting, and quickly write an abstract of it, published in 1859 as ''On the Origin of Species''. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin. He then did fieldwork in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia. He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical di ...
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