Rufous-brown Solitaire

The rufous-brown solitaire is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long and weighs about 61 g (2.2 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies C. l. leucogenys have a rufous-brown, dark cinnamon, or brownish rufous head, upperparts, throat, and upper breast. They have a pale whitish to yellow ring of bare skin around the eye. The wings and tail feathers have dusky inner webs and outer webs the same color as the upperparts. Their breast below the rufous bib is dingy whitish with a gray wash and their belly dingy whitish with a tawny wash. Voice: The rufous-brown solitaire's song is complex and musical, composed of rapid, variable phrases. It varies somewhat between populations. In Venezuela it is described as "short, varied, and complex, often loud but more squeaky and chattery than musical; a few melodic and squeaky notes mixed with chips, short buzzes, and trills in rapid sequence". Its call there is "a high, vanishingly thin eeeeee".