Ornate Stipplethroat

The ornate stipplethroat is 9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 8.5 to 11 g (0.30 to 0.39 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies E. o. ornata have a gray head, neck, and upper back. Their lower back and rump are rufous chestnut. Their tail is blackish gray with thin white edges to the feathers. Their wings are blackish gray with white tips on the coverts. They have a solid black throat. Their underparts are mostly pale gray with a brown tinge to the flanks and undertail coverts. Adult females have a mostly olive-tinged cinnamon face. Voice: The ornate stipplethroat's song varies with the subspecies. That of E. o. saturata is described as "a thin, high-pitched chipper that fades away, 'tsee-tsee-tsi-tsi-tsitsitsi' ". That of E. o. hoffmannsi is an "extr. hig, thin, rattling trill" whose frequency drops at the end. Those of meridionalis and atrogularis are similar to that of hoffmannsi but with less of a terminal frequency drop.