Dot-backed Antbird
Hylophylax punctulatus
The dot-backed antbird is 10 to 11.5 cm (3.9 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 11 to 13 g (0.39 to 0.46 oz). Adult males have a dark rufous-brown crown, nape, and mantle with a white patch between their scapulars. Their back and rump are black with large white feather tips. Their flight feathers are dark brown with wide rufous-brown edges and their wing coverts black with wide white to pale buff tips. Their tail is black with white feather tips. Their face is mostly white; their throat and the lower sides of their neck are black. Voice: The male dot-backed antbird's song is "a series of doublets each about 0·5 seconds long of 2 somewhat similar sharp whistles, the first emphasizing an upslur and the second a downslur, sounding like "free beer", delivered at rate of c. 1 every 2 seconds, sometimes for minutes at a time, doublet often given singly". Its note has also been written as "whee-beéyur" and "wee-HEEew".
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Spot-backed Antbird
Hylophylax naevius
The spot-backed antbird is 10.5 to 11.5 cm (4.1 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 11 to 14 g (0.39 to 0.49 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies H. n. naevius have a dark yellowish brown crown and nape. Their upperparts are mostly dark yellowish brown; the center of their back is black with pale buff spots and they have a white patch between their scapulars. Their flight feathers are dark brown with black bases and their wing coverts black with wide white to pale buff tips. Their tail is dark reddish yellow-brown with white to pale buff tips and a black band above the tips. Voice: The spot-backed antbird's song varies among the subspecies; it is generally "a long series of doublets". In Ecuador it is described as "a fast, high-pitched, and somewhat wheezy 'wur, weépur-weépur-weépur-weépur-weépur-weépur-weépur-weépur'...loudest in the middle and fading at end". In Brazil, where several subspecies are found, it is "ery/extr.
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