The Lord Howe fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa cervina ), also known as the Lord Howe Island fantail or fawn-breasted fantail, was a small bird in the fantail family, Rhipiduridae. It is an extinct subspecies of the New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa ). It was endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, part of New South Wales, Australia.
The Lord Howe fantail has sometimes been treated as a full species. It differed from the other subspecies by its entire underparts being light cinnamon-brown, with a paler throat, lacking the white throat with the dark bar delimiting it from the breast.
The Lord Howe fantail was restricted to Lord Howe Island, where it inhabited the native subtropical rainforest.
The birds were very tame, commonly seen around buildings which they often entered in search of insects.
The fantail built a cup-shaped nest, with a rudimentary tail, of decayed wood fibre and grass, bound with cobwebs and lined with fine grass, situated on a horizontal branch. The clutch was usually three, sometimes two, eggs.
