Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) [XC500515]
by Frank Lambert from Camdeboo National Park (near Graaff-Reinet), Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)
Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) [XC252151]
by Peter Boesman from Grahamstown (near Alicedale), Western District, Eastern Cape, 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.