It is endemic to Pemba Island, in Tanzania.

[2] As pictured, adult males display iridescent blue-green coloration on their head and throat with bluish violet coloration on their wings and across their breast.

Females have a gray-brown coloration on their head and wings, a pale yellow underside with blurry streaking and a small pale yellow lateral streak posterior to the eye.

[3] A breeding pair were seen feeding their chicks in the characteristic hanging nest on Unguja Island in June 2018.

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