4. BATIS. 133 



4. BATIS. 



Tjpe. 



Batis, Boie, Isis, 1833, p. 880 B. capensis. 



I'achyprora, Sundev. Av. 3fet/i. Tent. p. 24 (1872) B. capensis. 



Mange. Confined to Africa. 



Kt)/ to the Species. 

 Males. 



a. Flanks rufous cajjensis, p. 1.33. 



b. Flanks white, mixed with black. 

 a'. With a white nuchal spot. 



a". 'W ith a broad white eyebrow encircling the 

 head. 



«'". Head black senegalensis, p. 1-34. 



b'". Head bluish p-ey orientah's, p. 1.36: 



b". With a little white line from base of bill to , ,. ,„^ 



above the eye, not encircling the head .... \ ""^/'f'^'"' P^^o '• 

 ■^ ' " \pri7tt, p. 1.38. 



c". With no white line over the eye or encircling 



the head, the sides of which are black .... minulla, p. 137. 

 b'. With no white nuchal spot minima, p. 139. 



Females. 



a. Flanks rufous capensis, p. 133. 



b. Flanks white, varied with black. 

 a'. With a white nuchal spot. 



a". Throat white, with no spot ; chest rufous. 

 a'". With a white eyebrow encircling the 

 head. 



a*. Head black senegalen-sis, p. 134. 



,„**• ?*^^'^ bluish grey orie'ntalis, p. 136. 



b'". With no white eyebrow round the head. . minidla, p. 137. 

 b". Throat rufous in centre, forming a .spot ; chest 



rufous molitor, p. 137. 



f". Throat and breast pale orange-rufous, uni- 



^. form jn-irit, p. 138. 



b'. With no white nuchal spot mi7uma, p. 139, 



1. Batis capensis. 



Le Gobe-mouche du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Briss. Om. ii. p. 372, 



pi. .36. fig. 3 ; Buff. PI. Enl. v. pi. .572. fig. 1. 

 Muscicapa capensis, Linn. S. X. i. p. 327 {ex Briss.). 

 Le Molenar, LevaiU. Ois. dAfr. iv. pi. 160; Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. 



p. 42. 

 Muscicapa pristinaria, Vieill. N. Diet. d'lTisf. Nat. xxi. p. 474 (e.v 



Levaill.). 

 Saxicola thoracica, Licht. Verz. Dovhl. p. .32. 

 Muscipeta pristinaria, Less. Traite, p. 385. 

 Batis capensis, Boie, Isis, 18.33, p. 880 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, p. 101 : 



Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 37-5 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 203 ; Sharne, 



ed. Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 3-51. 

 Platvsteira pristinaria, Gra)/, Gen. B. i. p. 2-56; Bp. Consp.'i.-a 32-^; 



La;/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 143. 

 Platvsteira capensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 257 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 322 : 



Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. .59 ; GriV, Zool. Antechn. p. 26 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



