Fire-eyed Diucon

The fire-eyed diucon is 18.5 to 21.5 cm (7.3 to 8.5 in) long and weighs 31 to 50 g (1.1 to 1.8 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dark gray crown, face, and upperparts. Their primary coverts and remiges are black with pale gray edges on the inner remiges. Their tail is dark gray with paler outer feathers and paler tips on the others. Their throat is very pale ashy gray with faint darker gray streaks. Their breast is a darker ashy gray, their belly grayish white, and their vent area white. Subspecies P. p. Voice: The fire-eyed diucon is not highly vocal. Its song is "short call notes terminating in a flourish...pt wheet whut T-T-wheeeooo". Its call has been described as "a quiet peet" and a "soft, subdued pit or whit", "a soft pt", and "a very brief and relatively high pitched tseet".