Chestnut-crowned Becard
Pachyramphus castaneus
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".
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Cinereous Becard
Pachyramphus rufus
The cinereous becard is 12.9 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs about 18.5 g (0.65 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a glossy black crown, a white forehead and lores, a dusky spot in front of the eye, and pearl-gray cheeks. Their upperparts are mostly pearl-gray and sometimes have a faint olive tinge on the upper back. Their wings are blackish with thin white edges on the outer flight feathers and wider white edges on the inner flight feathers and coverts. Their tail is slaty gray; the feathers sometimes have whitish edges at their tips. Voice: "Both sexes appear to have rather large repertoire of melancholy songs". They typically are "a fast series of musical notes, e.g. twee, twee, twee-twee-twee-tweetweeteeteetititi, rising in pitch and accelerating to almost a trill".
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