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Genus Batis
Cape Batis - It is a small stout insect-eating bird, usually found in moist evergreen mountain forests and wooded gorges. The nest is a small neat cup low in a tree or bush.
Batis crypta - The Dark Batis is about 10 centimetres in length and weighs 10-15 grams. It has a dark bill and legs and red eyes. The male is white below with a broad black breastband. Above it has a dark grey crown, grey back with some black feather-tips, a black face-mask and black wings with a white stripe. The female has a greyish crown, brownish back, dark mask, slight white supercilium and a narrow rufous stripe on the wing. Below it has a rufous chin-spot and breast with whitish tips to some of the feathers.
Ruwenzori Puff-back Flycatcher - The Ruwenzori Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in the Albertine Rift in Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is montane forests above 1,400 m.
Chapin's Puff-back Flycatcher - The Ituri Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Boulton's Puff-back Flycatcher - Margaret's Batis or Boulton's Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Black-headed Puff-back Flycatcher - It is sometimes split into two species: Eastern Black-headed Batis in southern Somalia and eastern parts of Kenya and Tanzania and Western Black-headed Batis in the rest of the range.
Angola Batis - The Angola Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in Angola, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Short-tailed Batis - The Dark Batis of south-west Tanzania and northern Malawi was formerly included in this species but was described a new separate species in 2006. Reichenow's Batis of coastal south-east Tanzania is often treated as a subspecies of the Cape Batis or as a species in its own right but may be a subspecies of the Forest Batis.
Chinspot Batis - The Chinspot Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and dry savanna.
Pygmy Puff-back Flycatcher - The Pygmy Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Fernando Po Puff-back Flycatcher - The Fernando Po Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is endemic to Equatorial Guinea.
Pririt Batis - It is a small stout insect-eating bird, found in dry broadleaf woodland and thorn scrub. The nest is a small neat cup low in a tree or bush.
Paler Chin Spot Puff-back Flycatcher - The Pale Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and dry savanna.