350 BIRDS OF SOUIH AFRICA. 
round the eye, ear-coverts, and sides of upper neck black ; wings 
and tail as in B. molitor; throat and entire breast clear orange-buff ; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; flanks mixed with blackish ; 
thighs black ; bill and feet black. Total length, 3°8 inches; culmen, 
0°5; wing, 2:2; tail, 1-7; tarsus, 0°7. 
337. Batis MINULLA. _ Lesser White-flanked Flycatcher. 
This species has lately been described by Professor Barboza du 
Bocage from examples obtained by Senor Anchieta at Biballa in 
Mossamedes. It will be figured in his forthcoming work on the 
Birds of West Africa, and as he has kindly lent us the typical 
specimens for examination we are able to state that the species 
appears quite distinct from the two foregoing, the male being dis- 
tinguished by the absence of a white circlet round the crown, while 
the female differs not only in this respect, but also in having only a 
single pectoral band of chestnut without any spot on the throat, 
which is white like the abdomen. 
The following descriptions are taken from the type-specimens in 
the Lisbon Museum. 
Adult male-Upper surface of body dark grey, the nape with a 
white patch; scapulars, lower back and rump mottled with white 
subterminal spots to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts and tail black, 
the penultimate feather narrowly edged with white, the outermost 
rectrix white on the outer web and at the tip; wings black, the 
least coverts very narrowly edged with white, the greater series very 
broadly tipped, especially the innermost, which are white for the 
terminal half, the inner secondaries also edged narrowly with white, 
forming a thin longitudinal line down the wing; lores whitish, giving 
the appearance of a narrow frontal line ; feathers between the bill and 
the eye as well as the sides of the face and ear-coverts black; a 
line of black feathers drawn down the sides of the neck on each side 
of the white muchal spot; cheeks, sides of neck and under parts 
pure white, the sides of the body mottled with greyish black ; across 
the chest a broad band of glossy black ; thighs black ; under wing- 
coverts black, tipped with white, the axillaries entirely white; bill 
and feet black; iris bright yellow. Totallength 4:2 inches ; culmen, 
0:55; wing, 2°18; tail, 1:6; tarsus, 0°65. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male, but distinguished by a chest- 
