Madagascar is home to Schlegel’s Asity. It is prevalent in the north-west but patchy throughout the west coast.It inhabits NW evergreen wet woods and W dry deciduous forests. Small fruits and nectar are its seasonal diet. Nesting in suspended globular structure is typical.

Male breeding plumage is distinguished by blue and green supraorbital caruncles.Deforestation and forest degradation threаten Schlegel’s Asity. The species is Near Threatened.Schlegel’s Asity is a chubby bird with small legs, tail, and bill.Breeding males have vivid yellow upper mantles and underparts. Rest of upperparts olive-green. Browner upperwings and tail have faint olive fringes.

The underwing covers and axillaries are pale yellow. The undertail is dark grey. Yellow underparts have short olive-green feather fringes from chin to breаst and sides.

Black head. A featherless, vivid blue and green wattle and fleshy dermis excrescences are visible above the eye. A green eyering, brilliant apple-green wattle in front and below the eye, and two lobes behind the eye make up this ornament. Sky-blue area above and below eye. This colorful ornament stands out against the black head.

Blackish bill with orange-yellow gape. Eyes are dark brown. Grey legs and feet.Male non-breeding plumage has olive head, nape, and upperparts. Upperwing flight-feathers have yellow fringes, and the upper mantle has varying yellow and black markings. The head, cheeks, and ear-coverts are olive with paler mottling and an indistinct supercilium. Caruncles are diminished yet eyering is visible.

White to yellow-olive underparts, throat, and breаst are scaly. All belly and undertail covers are yellow.

Adult females resemble non-breeding males. Her gape and eyering are orange-yellow.Immature resembles feminine. Young males may have caruncles with female plumage.October–December is nest-building season. Polygyny is possible, however resource availability may affect breeding strategy.

The female weaves a globular construction on a branch 2–5 meters above the ground in the understorey. Males may aid her.In the west of the island, where there is little moss, the bird adds strips of bark and deаd leaves held together with spider web to the nest.No clutch size is given. No more info.