Forest batis
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| Species: | B. mixta
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| Batis mixta (Shelley, 1889)
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The forest batis or short-tailed batis (Batis mixta) is a species of bird in the wattle-eye family, Platysteiridae. It is found in tropical moist forests in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It mainly occurs in montane forest but in south-east Kenya it is found in lowland forest near the coast.
The dark batis (B. crypta) 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 (B. reichenowi) of coastal south-east Tanzania is often treated as a subspecies of the Cape batis (B. capensis) or as a species in its own right but may be a subspecies of the Forest Batis.
References
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- Fjeldså, Jon; Bowie, Rauri C. K. & Kiure, Jacob (2006) The forest batis, Batis mixta, is two species: description of a new, narrowly distributed Batis species in the Eastern Arc biodiversity hotspot., Journal of Ornithology, 147 (4): 578-590.