Nesillas

• Lantz's Brush-warbler Nesillas lantzii

  This brush-warbler occurs in southwestern Madagascar from sea level to about 500 m. It has a long graduated tail and searches for insects by day, alone or in pairs.

• Malagasy Brush Warbler Nesillas typica

  The Malagasy Brush Warbler is common in suitable cover on Madagascar and is also recorded on Mohéli. Checklists differ over whether the Anjouan Brush Warbler belongs in the same species.

• Grand Comoro Brush Warbler Nesillas brevicaudata

  This warbler is endemic to Grande Comore. Its head, back, and wings are olive-brown, with a narrow pale eyebrow. A Mount Karthala study found it selecting mature and planted forest and avoiding logged forest.

• Anjouan Brush Warbler Nesillas longicaudata

  A warbler of Anjouan in the Comoros. Accounts place it in forest undergrowth and dense vegetation, where it gleans small invertebrates from leaves. Some checklists recognize it as a species, while others treat it as a subspecies of the Malagasy Brush Warbler, N. typica.

• Moheli Brush Warbler Nesillas mariae

  Nesillas mariae lives only on Mohéli in the Comoros. It has olive-green upperparts and pale buff underparts, and searches for small invertebrates in evergreen-forest undergrowth and low trees.

• Malagasy Brush Warbler Nesillas typica

  The Malagasy Brush Warbler is common in suitable cover on Madagascar and is also recorded on Mohéli. Checklists differ over whether the Anjouan Brush Warbler belongs in the same species.

• Lantz's Brush-warbler Nesillas lantzii

  This brush-warbler occurs in southwestern Madagascar from sea level to about 500 m. It has a long graduated tail and searches for insects by day, alone or in pairs.