Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis Scientific name definitions

13 cm; 9–17 g. Male nominate race is dark bluish slate-grey above, lores blackish-slate; primaries and secondaries blackish slate-brown, outer webs edged pale slate-grey, tertials with bluish-grey wash; tail blackish slate-grey, outermost two feathers shorter and brownish slate-grey; pale bluish slate-grey below , slightly paler on chin, and shading to white on centre of belly and undertail-coverts; underwing-coverts and axillaries white; iris olive-brown; upper mandible black or blackish-brown, lower mandible mostly pale bluish-horn; legs black. Differs from F. plumbea in darker general coloration, blackish lores, no white eyering, lack of white in wing and outer tail. Female is like male but duller. Juvenile has entire upperparts and upperwing-coverts dark greyish-brown and covered with triangular pale rufous spots, wings and tail dark greyish-brown, feathers edged buff to pale rufous, underparts greyish with black-edged pale rufous spots; immature like adult, but wings and tail browner, narrowly edged buff to pale rufous, a few pale rufous spots on upperwing-coverts and (sometimes) uppertail-coverts. Race <em>parelii</em> is more bluish-slate above than nominate, lower mandible black with trace of pale horn at base, wing shorter (54–56 mm, as opposed to 59–64 mm) and tail longer (52–53 mm, as opposed to 47–51 mm).

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Song a thin, mournful, quavering “truu-teee-thu-ee” with variations, somewhat reminiscent of that of F. plumbea. Contact call a series of weak, short, plaintive notes, “pip-pu-puee-pip” (Uganda) or “tee-tyiew-ew” (Gabon); in aggression a warbling “song” like that of Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin); alarm a harsh “tseee-tye”.