Club-winged Manakin
Machaeropterus deliciosus
The club-winged manakin is about 9.5 to 10 cm (3.7 to 3.9 in) long. One female weighed 12 g (0.42 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a scarlet forehead and crown and a dusky stripe through the eye. The rest of their head and their body are mostly chestnut-brown that is lighter on the face and darker on the belly. Their rump and uppertail coverts are blackish. Their flanks have some white mixed in. Their scapulars and tail are black and their wings black with much white on the flight feathers. Voice: The male club-winged manakins at a lek make "a high-pitched seet or seet-seet followed by up to 8 loud, strident keah! notes".
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Striolated Manakin
Machaeropterus striolatus
The striolated manakin is 9 to 10.3 cm (3.5 to 4.1 in) long and weighs 6.4 to 12.5 g (0.23 to 0.44 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males of the nominate subspecies M. s. striolatus have a bright red forehead, crown, and nape. Their face, upperparts, and tail are bright olive-green. Their wings are mostly a grayer olive-green than the upperparts and have white tips on the tertials and white inner webs on the other flight feathers. Their chin and throat are buff or whitish. The rest of their underparts are whitish with bold red stripes on the breast, belly, and flanks. Voice: The male striolated manakin's "advertising call" varies among the subspecies but is "always somewhat insect-like". In Ecuador its song is described as a repeated "soft, clear, whistled who-cheéuw". In Peru it is described as "a high, sneezy cli-CHEW!".
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