Cryptic Becard

The cryptic becard is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs an average of about 17 g (0.60 oz). Adult males have a glossy bluish black crown. They have blackish lores, a wide white stripe from above the lores to above the eye, and a thin partial white eye-ring on an otherwise grayish face. Their nape and upperparts through their uppertail coverts are gray. Their wings are mostly black with wide white edges on the secondaries, tertials, and median and greater coverts; the last two show as wing bars. Their tail is has a black upper surface and a white-tipped pale gray lower surface. Voice: The cryptic becard's song is a "short stereotypic phrase of typically three notes tu-tu-dwit?" and it also makes a "rapid stuttered trill tjududududuwit" that might be a variation of the song. Males sing mostly at dawn and in the early morning.