Pale-naped Brushfinch
Atlapetes pallidinucha
The pale-naped brushfinch is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long and weighs about 21 to 40 g (0.74 to 1.4 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a wide pale cinnamon stripe from the forehead to the middle of the crown, a white rear crown and nape, and a black face. Their upperparts are dark slate gray and their wings and tail blackish. Their throat, breast, and belly are bright yellow. Their sides, flanks, and undertail coverts are washed with olivaceous to gray. Voice: The pale-naped brushfinch's dawn song, usually given in duet, is "a thin, high tsie...tsie weu, tsi...tsie weu tsie weu, ti...ti wee tsits we weee or tsie...tsie tsieu". The first tsi notes are alike or descending and the tsieu note rises sharply. Its territorial song is "wheet-tew-tew-tew". Its calls are "a high-pitched soft tip" and a repeated "nasal pffe".
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Yellow-breasted Brushfinch
Atlapetes latinuchus
The yellow-breasted brushfinch is about 17 cm (6.7 in) long and weighs about 16 to 31 g (0.56 to 1.1 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies A. l. latinuchus have a rufous to orange-rufous stripe from the forehead to the nape. Their face is black with a wide yellow lower cheek and a thin black line below it. Their upperparts are dark slate gray. Their wings are slightly blacker with white bases on the primaries. Their tail is blackish with olive feather edges. Voice: The yellow-breasted brushfinch's dawn song is a "relatively short and simple, sweet whistled phrase that is repeated with variations every few seconds". Excited pairs give a jumbled and slightly musical series of notes. The species' calls include "a very high-pitched...very short tink or tsik" and a "high-pitched, finely modulated buzzy" tsweet.
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