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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
Photo taken: Mandai Orchid Garden, Singapore | Photo taken: Mandai Orchid Garden, Singapore | ||
| − | + | Male-Pale brown throat and sides of head diagnostic.Upperparts dark iridescent green with rufescent olive tinge on wings,patch on shoulder ,rump and uppertail coverts iridescent purple;underparts bright yellow(male inpicture.). | |
| + | Female-Olive upperparts and bright yellowish underparts dostinctive.Has indistinct narrow yellowish patch above and below the eye.From female olive-backed Sunbird by larger size,straighter bill and the lack of white in tail.Size-14cm. | ||
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
Revision as of 11:48, 30 July 2007
AKA Brown-throated Sunbird
- Anthreptes malacensis
Identification
Photo taken: Mandai Orchid Garden, Singapore Male-Pale brown throat and sides of head diagnostic.Upperparts dark iridescent green with rufescent olive tinge on wings,patch on shoulder ,rump and uppertail coverts iridescent purple;underparts bright yellow(male inpicture.). Female-Olive upperparts and bright yellowish underparts dostinctive.Has indistinct narrow yellowish patch above and below the eye.From female olive-backed Sunbird by larger size,straighter bill and the lack of white in tail.Size-14cm.
