Pririt batis

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| name = Pririt batis

| image = Pririt batis (Batis pririt affinis) male.jpg

| image_caption = Male B. p. affinis
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 = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Batis pririt |volume=2016 |page=e.T22707873A94140401 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22707873A94140401.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Batis pririt

| authority = (Vieillot, 1818)

}}

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.