Sooty Antbird
Hafferia fortis
The sooty antbird is 17 to 19 cm (6.7 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 42 to 48 g (1.5 to 1.7 oz). Both sexes have a ring of light blue bare skin around their eye and a red iris. Adult males of the nominate subspecies are mostly very dark gray with a brown tinge on their wings and a seldom visible white line at the bend of the wing. Adult females have a rufous-chestnut crown with a black border. Their upperparts are grayish olive-brown that becomes reddish yellow-brown at the rump. Their wings are rufous and their tail dark brown. Voice: The sooty antbird's song is "a slowly and even-paced, rising series of ringing, descending whistled notes" pew pew PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW". Its calls include "a loud, musical, puttering rattle, also a descending mewed aaww and a hollow, musical chatter: PEW'kur'kur'kur'kur'kur".
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Zeledon's Antbird
Hafferia zeledoni
Zeledon's antbird is 17 to 20 cm (6.7 to 7.9 in) long and weighs about 40 to 56 g (1.4 to 2.0 oz). Both sexes have a wide pale blue ring around their eye and a deep red iris. Adult males of the nominate subspecies are mostly black with variable amounts of white on the wing and wing coverts; the white is almost always hidden. Adult females are mostly dark brown that is paler on their underparts than above. Their lores and face are black. Males of subspecies H. z. berlepschi have more white on their wings than the nominate. Females are a paler and brighter brown than the nominate. Voice: The song of the male Zeledon's antbird is a "rapidly delivered...loud ringing and slightly descending series of clear whistled notes, 'peer-peer-peer-peer-peer-peer-peer-peer', slowing a bit toward end". Both sexes "give an explosive 'cheek!' call and a fast scolding 'jee-jee-jit' ".
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