Chestnut-crowned Becard

The chestnut-crowned becard is about 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs about 17 g (0.60 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies P. c. castaneus have a dark chestnut-rufous crown with a scaly appearance, dusky lores, a pale buff-whitish line above the lores, a gray line above the eye that widens and extends around the nape, and pale cinnamon cheeks. Their upperparts are mostly cinnamon-rufous. Their wings are mostly dusky cinnamon with dusky rufous coverts and dusky flight feathers with light cinnamon-rufous edges. Their tail is cinnamon-rufous. Voice: The chestnut-crowned becard's song is a "simple series of 4-5 very high weeu--- notes without intervals". It is also described as "a series of soft, thin, casual, rather musical whistles, e.g. teeeuw-teeu-teeu or teeeer, tee, tee". Its call is "extr. high, slightly gliding up and down tuuit notes".