Speckled Mourner

The speckled mourner is 19 to 21.5 cm (7.5 to 8.5 in) long and weighs 38.6 to 56 g (1.4 to 2.0 oz). The sexes have almost the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a thin orange ring around the eye. The rest of their head, upperparts, wings, and tail are mostly rufous-brown. Their wing coverts are dusky with large rufous spots on the tips that form two or three faint wing bars. Their throat and underparts are mostly a paler cinnamon-brown than their upperparts. Their breast usually has thin dusky scallops. Voice: Male speckled mourners "tirelessly repeat a ringing and ventriloquial tleeyr, tlee-yeeí, tlee-yeeí, tlee-yeeí...". It repeats up to 15 times, pauses, and then starts again. The species also makes a "plaintive, drawn-out, slightly mewing peeeeeeeu with abrupt end".