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The Northern Black Flycatcher, ''Melaenornis edolioides'', is a small Passerine Bird in the Flycatcher family Muscicapidae. This is an insectivorous species which is a resident breeder in tropical Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Zaire and Tanzania . The Northern Black Flycatcher is found in moist wooded areas and cultivation. It nests in a hole, or reuses the old nest of another species, and lays two or three eggs. Breeding takes place in the wet season. The Northern Black Flycatcher is 20cm long. It is a large upright long-tailed flycatcher. The adult is uniformly black. Juveniles are blackish-brown with buff scaling. The long square-ended tail helps to distinguish this species from two other all-black Insectivore s, the Fork-tailed Drongo and the shorter-tailed and red-eyed Square-tailed Drongo . This flycatcher has a simple musical song, and a thin ''tsee-whee'' call. REFERENCE
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