Black-spotted Bare-eye

The black-spotted bare-eye is 16.5 to 18.5 cm (6.5 to 7.3 in) long and weighs 42 to 51 g (1.5 to 1.8 oz). The sexes are alike. Both have a large ring of bare red skin around the eye. Adults of the nominate subspecies P. n. nigromaculata have a black head, neck, throat, and upper belly. Their upperparts are light olive with lengthwise oval black spots that have pale yellowish olive-brown edges. Their flight feathers are cinnamon-rufous and their tail rufous-chestnut. Their underparts below the black breast are olive-brown that becomes cinnamon-rufous towards the tail. Subspecies P. n. Voice: The black-spotted bare-eye's song is "a short series of moderately long, flat, rich whistles, each slightly lower in pitch and becoming harsher in quality"; the number of notes varies. It has been written as "zhweé, zhwu, zhwu" and "HEEEW heer heer". Its calls include an "abrupt 'chip', a long...'chirr' falling in pitch and intensity, and a short series...of lengthening notes that drop in pitch".