Cinereous Mourner

The cinereous mourner is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long and weighs 41 to 51 g (1.4 to 1.8 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a thin orange ring around the eye. The rest of their head, upperparts, wings, and tail are mostly gray. Their primaries have a brown tinge and two rows of cinnamon spots that show as broken wing bars. Their tertials and the tips of their tail feathers have smaller cinnamon spots. Their underparts are a slightly paler gray than their upperparts. Their breast and crissum sometimes have black-tipped orange spots. Voice: The cinereous mourner's song is "a series of 10–15 very high-pitched, thin, drowsy and slurred tee-o-weeét whistles, first whistle often longer cheeeeee-a-wee". It is ventrioquial, insect-like, and carries a great distance. The bird makes long pauses between song bouts. It also makes a "series of 3–4 plaintive teeéuw whistles and a repeated weet-jeh shriek".