Purple Grenadier (Granatina ianthinogaster) [XC277851]
by Peter Boesman from Negele - Filtu Road, 32 km east of Negele, Ethiopia (call)
Purple Grenadier (Granatina ianthinogaster) [XC127359]
by Andrew Spencer from Mpala Research Centre, Kenya (flight call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
May form a superspecies with Violet-eared Waxbill (Granatina granatina). Birds from Kisumu, in Kenya, described as subspecies rothschildi, others from southern R Guaso Nyiro, in Sotik district of Kenya, as subspecies roosevelti, and birds from Bari, on R Shebelle, in Somalia, as subspecies hawkeri, but none appears to exhibit any constant differences from those elsewhere in species' range.