Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) [XC515624]
by Louis A. Hansen from Banda-cottage, forest edge, agricultur landscape, Mafwemiro forest, Mpwapwa, Dodoma Region, Tanzania (call)
Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) [XC780821]
by Dawie de Swardt from Fleurdal suburb garden, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (song)
Subspecies
Possibly forms a superspecies with Red-tufted Sunbird (Nectarinia johnstoni).
Proposed subspecies subfamosa (described from Antotto, in central Ethiopia), centralis (Lusasa, in southern Uganda) and aeneigularis (Sotik, in south-western Kenya) all considered indistinguishable from cupreonitens. Subspecies major (described from Weenen, in KwaZulu-Natal) synonymized with nominate.