Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) [XC311427]
by Peter Boesman from Udawalawa area, Sri Lanka (song)
Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) [XC810490]
by Ding Li Yong from Bardiya National Park, Bardiya, Lumbini Province, Nepal (song)
Nest
A pouch with a side entrance, composed of this strips of vegetation, lichen, bark bound with cobweb, suspended from a low branch, wires or other man-made objects.
brevirostris (Blanford, 1873) - Eastern Arabian Peninsula (northern United Arab Emirates, northern and central Oman), and south-eastern Iran, eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan and western India (western Rajasthan and western Gujarat).
asiaticus (Latham, 1790) - India (except western and eastern ), Nepal and Sri Lanka.
intermedius (Hume, 1870) - Eastern India (Assam south to Orissa and northern Andra Pradesh) and Bangladesh east to Myanmar, southern China (southern Yunnan) and Indochina.