Dusky-chested Flycatcher
Myiozetetes luteiventris
The dusky-chested flycatcher is the smallest member of genus Myiozetetes. It is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs about 16.5 g (0.58 oz). The sexes have almost the same plumage. Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a grayish olive-brown crown and face with a mostly hidden yellow-orange patch in the center of the crown. Females have a smaller patch or none at all. Adults of both sexes have dark olive-brown upperparts. Their wings are dark olive-brown with faint and variable rufous edges on the flight feathers. Their throat is whitish with faint dusky streaks. Voice: The dusky-chested flycatcher's most common call is "a nasal, cat-like meeow or softer neea". It makes a "fast nasal nyeeuw-nyeeuw, keep-kít or neea-ne-wít" when it is excited; sometimes pairs do this in duet. It also makes simple, often repeated, "keeuw or nyeeuw" calls.
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Rusty-margined Flycatcher
Myiozetetes cayanensis
The rusty-margined flycatcher is 16.5 to 18 cm (6.5 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 22 to 29.5 g (0.78 to 1.0 oz). The sexes have the same plumage, though females average slightly smaller than males. Adults of the nominate subspecies M. c. cayanensis have a dark sooty brown to blackish brown crown with a mostly hidden bright yellow to golden-orange patch in the center. The have a white supercilium that begins on the forehead and extends far past the eye; the rest of their face is dark sooty brown to blackish brown. Their upperparts are plain brown to olive-brown. Voice: The rusty-margined flycatcher's dawn song is "a repeated fwee, sometimes with short couplet or additional note added". Its most common call is "a thin, whining, almost plaintive peeeeeeeea or wheeeeee" that may be repeated several times. Other calls include a "loud and emphatic uuuuureeeéét-éét-éét or too-eeéet" and a "quick rolling series of keé-wit tis-u or chew-chewit" notes.
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