32 FRIENDS OF THE AGRICULTURIST 



the chest, and the sides of the body orange-rufous. The 

 female has no black band on the chest, the whole of the under- 

 parts being a dark orange chestnut. Length, 5^ inches. 



The bird is a lover of thickly wooded country, and is 

 particularly fond of the kloofs, where it builds a shallow 

 cup-shaped nest of grass and other material, lined internally 

 with fibre and hair and covered externally with lichen^ 

 The eggs are pale greenish-white spotted with pale brown 

 and marked with a ring of purplish-brown blotches on the 

 obtuse end. 



The White-flanked Mycatcher {B. molitor), both male 

 and female, have the flanks white, mottled with black instead 

 of orange-rufous, the female otherwise resembling that of 

 the- foregoing species. 



This bird arrives in the neighbourhood of Grahamstown 

 about the middle of October, when its sweet simple call of 

 three notes in a descending scale may be heard among the 

 mimosa bushes, which it largely affects. In fact, it seems 

 to prefer the more open mimosa scrub to the kloofs. 



Its nest resembles that of the Cape Flycatcher, and is 

 generally saddled on a lichen-covered bough of a mimosa, 

 and is a most beautiful example of assimilative art. Its 

 eggs are pale green, thickly spotted with brown of various 



The Pririt Flycatcher (B. pririt) closely resembles the 

 White-flanked Mycatcher, the male differing in having the 

 outer tail-feathers black on the outer web, these being only 

 tipped with white ; and the female in having the throat 

 and chest suffused with pah orange rufous. 



It ranges from Cape Town eastwards to Colesberg and 

 Grahamstown. 



A pair found breeding in January at Blue Krantz, in 



