Rufous-throated Solitaire
Myadestes genibarbis
The rufous-throated solitaire is 19 to 20.5 cm (7.5 to 8.1 in) long and weighs 24 to 30 g (0.85 to 1.1 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies M. g. genibarbis have a slate-gray crown, a white crescent below the eye, and a dark malar stripe on an otherwise orange-flecked face. Their upperparts are slate-gray. Their wings are slate-gray with black primary coverts, black bases on the secondaries, white bases on the inner primaries, and pale edges on the flight feathers. Their tail is mostly slate-gray with whitish outer feathers. Voice: The rufous-throated solitaire sings mostly at dawn, a "hauntingly beautiful minor key whistle". The song is a highly ventriloquial "first note low, second high, third low, interspersed with ringing double note". Its calls include a "single long toot" that sounds like a distant car horn.
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Slate-colored Solitaire
Myadestes unicolor
The brown-backed solitaire is 19 to 20.5 cm (7.5 to 8.1 in) long and weighs 30 to 44 g (1.1 to 1.6 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults are mostly slaty gray that is slightly lighter on their underparts than above. They have a broken white eye-ring, blacker primary coverts, black flight feathers with buff edges, and whitish gray outer tail feathers. They have a dark bill and yellowish legs and feet. Juveniles have a buffish "moustache". Their upperparts have black-edged buff spots and their underparts have whitish buff centers on the feathers that give a scaly appearance. Voice: The slate-colored solitaire's "loud, distinctive voice" is a "ringing metallic phrase, repeated regularly with little variation". It is described in much more detail as ethereal and haunting that "often starts hesitantly with a few poor notes, then breaks into varied series of clear or quavering fluty whistles, carefully delivered but of great beauty, often including or ending with loose trill, e.
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