Bird Family: Chats

Thickets. Grey, black and white above; below white chin to lower breast; flanks and belly washed orange.

Forests. Underparts yellow; head grey; rest deep olive-green.

Thickets. Underparts entirely rich orange extending to rump and tail fringes; white eyebrows on black hood.

Scrub. Rufous rump and upper tail coverts; well-streaked breast; white wing-markings.

Arid plains. Southern race is light grey-brown above; Namibian race very pale brown, almost white above; both races white below; rump buff or white.

Coastal forests. Above dark brown with two white wing-bars; face and underparts white, heavily marked and spotted black; bill black; legs pink.

Grasslands and Karoo scrub. Dark brown above with rufous-edged wing feathers and pale chestnut rump; off-white below with dusky breast.

Rocky hills. Grey above with white crown; rufous below from upper breast to vent.

Rocky uplands. Grey head, mantle and breast; lower breast to vent rufous.

Forests. Entirely orange except for brownish crown and silver-grey wings.

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