{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | name = Pririt batis | image = Pririt batis (Batis pririt affinis) male.jpg | image_caption = Male ''B. p. affinis''<br />Damaraland, Namibia | image2 = Batis pririt -Klein Pella, Northern Cape, South Africa -female-8.jpg | image2_caption = Female in Northern Cape, South Africa | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Batis pririt'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T22707873A94140401 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22707873A94140401.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | taxon = Batis pririt | authority = (Vieillot, 1818) }}
<!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|found in the drier parts of southern Africa through to southern Angola. It is a common resident and inhabits acacia savanna and riverine bush. Usually found in pairs or family groups it eats insects.|{{Deletable image-caption|1=Thursday, 30 August 2007|date=May 2012}} --> The '''pririt batis''' ('''''Batis pririt''''') also known as the '''pririt puff-back flycatcher''' or '''pririt puffback''', is a small passerine bird in the wattle-eye family. It is resident in Southern Africa and southwestern Angola.
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.
The pririt batis is strikingly patterned. The adult male has a dark grey crown and back, black eye mask and white throat. It has a black rump and tail, and its wing are black with white edging to the flight feathers and a long white shoulder patch. The underparts are white with a broad black breast band and black speckles on the flanks. The female and juvenile plumages differ in that there is no black breast band, but the throat and breast are a warm buff colour.
The pririt batis hunts by flycatching, or by taking prey from the ground like a shrike. The song is typically a slow descending series of whistled notes: ''teuu, teuu, teuu, teuu''.
==References== {{Reflist}} * Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, ''SASOL Birds of Southern Africa'' (Struik 2002) {{ISBN|1-86872-721-1}}
==External links== * Pririt batis - [http://sabap2.adu.org.za/docs/sabap1/703.pdf Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds]. *[https://thebdi.org/2024/01/29/pririt-batis-batis-pririt/ Pririt batis] Structured guide to the species in southern Africa
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pririt batis Category:Birds of Southern Africa pririt batis Category:Taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot