Scientific name: Cinnyris fuscus
Near-endemic to southern Africa, occurring from central Angola to Namibia and the western half of South Africa, marginally extending into south-western Botswana. It generally prefers drainage line woodland in succulent and Nama Karoo, semi-arid coastal plains with sand dunes, scrub along rivers and streams and rocky inselbergs with adequate cover, sometimes moving into gardens.
The breeding male has blackish-brownhead with faint purple-blue iridescence, upperparts dark brown with blue, purple.
It mainly eats nectar supplemented with arthropods, hawking insects aerially and gleaning prey from foliage and spider webs.
