Cocoa Thrush

The cocoa thrush is 21.5 to 24 cm (8.5 to 9.4 in) long and weighs 55 to 83 g (1.9 to 2.9 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies T. f. fumigatus have a foxy-brown head, upperparts, wings, and tail. Their throat is whitish buff with dark streaks, their breast and flanks pale orange-brown, and their belly to vent whitish with brown feather tips on the latter. Juveniles resemble adults with the addition of buff streaks and spots on their upperparts, wing bars made of orangey spots, and dark brown mottling on buffy orange underparts. Voice: The song of the cocoa thrush's nominate subspecies is "a long musical caroling with numerous slurred phrases, the whole gliding smoothly along within narrow ranges of pitches, pree-er, churry, churry, o-ee-e, lulu, o-E-er, cheer-er, we-e, wu-e, E-a-o-eeo, te-a, te-a, e-o-to-e, cheer-o, o-ee, urr, wu-EE-er, toe-ee-tu-tu, o-ee-o... and so on". That of T. f.