Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant
Muscisaxicola capistratus
The cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant is 16.5 to 18 cm (6.5 to 7.1 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a black forecrown and a bright rufous-chestnut mid- and hindcrown. Their face, nape, and upperparts are dusky gray or brownish gray. Their wings are dusky with pale white edges on the flight feathers. Their tail is black with whitish edges on the outer webs of the outermost feathers. Their throat is whitish, their breast grayish buff, and their belly cinnamon-rufous or rufous-buff that is darker on the flanks and vent area. Voice: As of April 2025 xeno-canto had seven recordings of cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant vocalizations, all by a single recordist in Argentina on January 20, 2002. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had five including one of the xeno-canto recordings. The species' vocalizations include a "high-pitched wee tee, wee tee tee and wee tee tee tee longer weetee weetee weeteewee wee wee".
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Puna Ground Tyrant
Muscisaxicola juninensis
The puna ground tyrant is 16 to 16.5 cm (6.3 to 6.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dull cinnamon crown, a white spot above their lores, a faint pale supercilium, and a pale broken eye-ring on an otherwise pale brownish gray face. Their upperparts are mostly pale brownish gray with a black lower rump. Their wings are dusky gray. Their tail is black with white edges on the outer webs of the outermost feathers. Their throat and belly are whitish and their breast pale gray. They have a dark iris, a black bill, and black legs and feet. Voice: As of April 2025 xeno-canto had a single recording of a puna ground tyrant vocalization and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had five others. The species' song is not known. Its call is "a soft high-pitched peep repeated at intervals".
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