Fulvous-headed Brushfinch

The fulvous-headed brushfinch is about 17 cm (6.7 in) long. One individual weighed 28.2 g (0.99 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly cinnamon head with a yellow patch above the lores, a yellow "moustche", and a yellow chin and throat. Their upperparts are green. Their tail is slate-gray with green feather edges. Their wings are mostly slate gray with greenish upperwng coverts and green edges on the flight feathers. They have an olive band across the breast that continues along the flanks and onto the crissum. Their belly is yellow. Voice: One description of the fulvous-headed brushfinch's song is "a thin, high-pitched tsit-tsit-tsiddle tsoo tsoo tsoo". Another is "short and explosive...e.g. tii’Chew-Chew-Chew! or faster twi-tew’tew’tew, sometimes lengthened to pit-twee pit’ Chew-Chew-Chew". Its calls are "a thin zit" and in alarm a "pi ziue".