Black-spectacled Brushfinch

The black-spectacled brushfinch is 16 to 19 cm (6.3 to 7.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly ochraceous tawny head and nape with a black forecrown and lores and large black area around the eye. They have a white streak above the lores and a white lower cheek with a black line below it. Their upperparts are gray and their tail black. Their wing coverts are blackish and their flight feathers blackish with paler outer edges. Their chin is grayish, their throat white, their breast and belly pale gray, and their flanks darker gray. Voice: The black-spectacled brushfinch's song is "a simple tew whee?, sometimes followed by some descending cheelu-cheelu phrases". Excited pairs duet "a characteristic swee tititi chew chew tsew-tsew". The species' call is "a lisping wees?".