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Common Sunbird-Asity
Neodrepanis coruscans Sharpe, 1875
Philepittidae — Asities
Common Sunbird-Asity, Neodrepanis coruscans, is a passerine in the Philepittidae family that breeds in north-west and east Madagascar. It lives in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The male is marked by a royal blue-fringed crown, nape, mantle and scapulars, with narrow yellow edging on parts of the wing. Its underparts are deep yellow with olive-brown streaking on the centre of the breast, while the flanks, belly and undertail coverts are unstreaked and brighter. The facial caruncle is nearly square, turquoise-blue and greener near the eye.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Philepittidae — Asities
- Breeding range
- Africa: nw, e Madagascar
