Batises and Wattle-eyes (Platysteiridae)

Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher (Bias musicus) - HBW 11, p. 185

French: Bias musicien German: Vangaschnäpper Spanish: Bias Músico
Other common names: Black-and-white/Vanga Flycatcher, Crested Shrike-flycatcher/Flycatcher-shrike

Taxonomy: Platyrhynchos musicus Vieillot, 1818, Malimbe, Cabinda, north Angola.
Some authors separate birds from Angola as race pallidiventris, birds from Uganda as femininus, those from Kenya and E Tanzania as changamwensis, and those from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique as clarens, on basis mainly of paler and more spotted plumage (of female and immature male); these characteristics are variable, however, and naming of geographical races considered unwarranted. Treated as monotypic.

Distribution: Forests from Gambia (one record) and Guinea-Bissau E to extreme S Sudan (Bengengai), Uganda and NW Tanzania (N of Bukoba), S to N Angola and S DRCongo (SW Katanga); also disjunctly C & S Kenya and coastal Tanzania S to S Malawi, E Zimbabwe and Mozambique (S to Inhambane and Limpopo districts).