Brass's Friarbird Philemon brassi

A fairly large brown songbird with a long heavy bill. Upperparts and crown gray-brown, sides of face and breast noticeably speckled with white. Note the large area of gray bare skin around the eye. Immatures show white-tipped feathers to some of the upperparts and a yellowish throat and breast. Confined to West Papua, where small groups inhabit canegrass and dense secondary growth. Smaller than Helmeted Friarbird, and differs in its pale markings on head and breast and lack of any bump on the top of the bill. Gives a nasal “tchew” call.