Blackish Pewee

The blackish pewee is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long; one male weighed 9 g (0.32 oz) and a female 10 g (0.35 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a blackish gray crown with a slight crest and slightly paler gray lores on an otherwise dark sooty gray face. Their back is also dark sooty gray. Their wings are blackish brown and their tail dark sooty gray. Their underparts are sooty gray that is slightly paler on the throat. Juveniles have wide whitish wing bars and pale tips on the upperparts' feathers. Subspecies C. n. Voice: The song of the blackish pewee's nominate subspecies is described as "a snappy but somewhat burry chí-bew repeated at 3 to 4-second intervals" and its calls as "repeated sharp pip or peep". The song of subspecies C. n. canescens in Peru is "a slightly burry, rising-falling dzree'whew! and its call "a musical, rich, falling pew! usually in evenly spaced series".