Green-chinned Euphonia
Euphonia chalybea
The green-chinned euphonia is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long and weighs 18 to 20 g (0.63 to 0.71 oz). It is a large euphonia with a short thick bill. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a small bright yellow forehead patch and blackish lores. The rest of their head, their neck, and their upperparts are glossy dark greenish blue. Their flight feathers are mostly dusky with dark greenish blue edges on the secondaries and tertials. Their tail's upper side is dark greenish blue and its underside is dark dusky gray. Voice: The green-chinned euphonia's song is a "short, simple warble with partly inhaled tif notes" and its call a "mid-high, dry, rapid ditditditdit".
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Orange-crowned Euphonia
Euphonia saturata
The orange-crowned euphonia is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a deep orange-yellow crown. The rest of their head and their nape, throat, wings, and upperparts are glossy blue-black with a purplish tinge. The top side of their tail is blue-black and the underside dark gray. Their underparts from their breast to the undertail coverts are deep orange ochraceous. Adult females have a dark olive head and upperparts. Their underparts are olive-yellow that is slightly paler and yellower on the throat, belly, and undertail coverts. Voice: The orange-crowned euphonia's song is "a leisurely series of tsit notes, nasal tcheeur notes, and fast tididit phrases". Its calls are "a simple beem-beem" and "a high, clear whistled pee-deet".
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