Austral Negrito vs Fire-eyed Diucon

Austral Negrito

Lessonia rufa

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The austral negrito is 11.5 to 12.5 cm (4.5 to 4.9 in) long. Adult males are mostly black with a rufous-chestnut back. Their flight feathers are black without the pale inner webs that the Andean negrito has. Adult females are smaller than males. They have a brownish gray crown, a white supercilium and cheek, and a dark brown "collar" on their nape and upper back. Their lower back is dull rufous-brown. Their wings and tail are black with whitish edges on the outer web of the outermost tail feathers. Voice: The austral negrito is not highly vocal. Its alarm call is "a repeated tjit-tjit" and its contact call "a short twitter". Males call "sipsipsipsip-sereen" during their display flight.

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Fire-eyed Diucon

Pyrope pyrope

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The fire-eyed diucon is 18.5 to 21.5 cm (7.3 to 8.5 in) long and weighs 31 to 50 g (1.1 to 1.8 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dark gray crown, face, and upperparts. Their primary coverts and remiges are black with pale gray edges on the inner remiges. Their tail is dark gray with paler outer feathers and paler tips on the others. Their throat is very pale ashy gray with faint darker gray streaks. Their breast is a darker ashy gray, their belly grayish white, and their vent area white. Subspecies P. p. Voice: The fire-eyed diucon is not highly vocal. Its song is "short call notes terminating in a flourish...pt wheet whut T-T-wheeeooo". Its call has been described as "a quiet peet" and a "soft, subdued pit or whit", "a soft pt", and "a very brief and relatively high pitched tseet".

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