Streak-throated Bush Tyrant

The streak-throated bush tyrant is 21 to 23 cm (8.3 to 9.1 in) long and weighs about 64 g (2.3 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a faint whitish stripe from the lores past the eye on an otherwise dark brown face. Their upperparts are a slightly lighter brown. Their wings are mostly dusky with cinnamon-rufous edges and bases to the flight feathers; the latter show as a prominent band in flight. Their tail's upper surface is dusky and its underside cinnamon with a blackish outer third. Voice: The streak-throated bush tyrant's calls have been described as "a loud, clear whistle, peeeeee" that rises and is "unmistakably human in quality", "a strident, whistled stee-deek!", and "2-4 loud humanlike whistles...püEEET,,wuuu..eee püEEET..wuEET..sueet..peeu". The vocalizations have also been described as "a loud descending whistled HEEW or HEEE'wit a squeaky seebit".