Smoky Bush Tyrant

The smoky bush tyrant is 18 to 20.5 cm (7.1 to 8.1 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage, which is somewhat reminiscent of a thrush's. Adults of the nominate subspecies M. f. fumigatus have a thin white supercilium on an otherwise dark smoky brown face. Their upperparts are also dark smoky brown. Their wings are mostly blackish with buffy edges on the coverts and cinnamon bases to the inner webs of the flight feathers; the latter show prominently in flight. Their underwing coverts are cinnamon which also shows in flight. Voice: The smoky bush tyrant's dawn song in Venezuela is described as "a long-sustained but halting of clear, whistled notes, cheea, cheea, cheea, chuEE" or alternated "3- and 4-note phrases, chura, chura, chEEea. chura, chura, chura, cheEEea". It also makes "a soft downslurred whistle, peeeee a soft, 3-noted, slurred whistle, falling then rising".