Speckled Nightingale-Thrush

The speckled nightingale-thrush is 17 to 19 cm (6.7 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 36 to 44 g (1.3 to 1.6 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a mostly black head with an orange eye-ring. Their upperparts are dark olive. Their throat, breast, and belly are deep apricot-yellow heavy with dusky spots and their flanks grayish. Adult females are dark grayish on the back of their crown and head. Subspecies C. m. blakei has a buffy throat but is otherwise like the nominate. Both subspecies have a dark iris, an orange bill, and orange legs and feet. Voice: One description of the speckled nightingale's song is "a beautiful series of short musical phrases that proceed with relatively brief pauses, e.g., tru-lee?...cheelolee...troloweé...cheetrelelee...trolowe". Another is "a series of various musical trills interspersed with more whistled phrases, for example zeee...che'e'e...tur'r'r...tooHEEuur...tre'e'e...". Its call is "a quiet, rising, mewed rhee?