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708. Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher
(Bluemantled flycatcher ) (Trochocercus cyanomelas segregus)
Uncommon breeding resident in the highveld and Lubombos.
Malolotja
Malolotja Information:
Uncommon resident to lower-lying forests, recorded from the Malolotja Valley and Ngwenya Forest.
Forested gorges
Mixed woodlands, thicket and thornveld
Malolotja information from the Bird Checklist for Malolotja (printed in the late 1980's, sponsored by the Natural History Society of Eswatini), supplemented with information from Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa, 1985.
Checklist, comments and distribution information from the Eswatini Bird Atlas by Vincent Parker, digital data provided by the Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (http://www.aviandemographyunit.org). SiSwati names from SNTC and Big Game Parks.
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