Rufous-browed Peppershrike

15-16 cm. A big heavy bodied vireo. Heavy shrike-like bill light brown. Gray head with rusty brown front and superciliary. Upperparts olive brown. Throat and chest yellowish. Belly whitish. <NSubspecies /ochrocephala of southern Southeast Brazil has a brownish crown with rufous restricted to the superciliary and lores ^133 . Legs pinkish. Eye red. Has a great variety of calls. Most common a short and loud flute-like phrase repeated several times before going on to another phrase type. Different types of these phrases are heard on vocalization 1-3 and 5. Also produces shorter whistles such as "wee-wee" vocalization 4 or "wiuwiu-i" vocalization 6 . Slow moving, usually in pairs. Forages in canopy of trees. Regularly in mixed flocks. Locally common in a variety of forest types, secondary forest edge, gallery forest, open dryer forest, parks. Not in dense primary forest. Throughout. To 1500 meters 2022 North of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, 03<10>18<10>94. Sunny, 32<91>C. Secondary forest: 4656 Song. Fazenda Intervales, 11<10>30<10>97. Sunny, 27<91>C. Secondary forest.: 4789 Call. Pirapora, 11<10>12<10>98. Cloudy, 25<91>C. Gallery forest. With /Saltator similis .: 14741 Call. 10<10>18<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel do Ype, above 1600 meters . Clouds, foggy, showers, 23<91>C. Primary forest with plenty of bamboo. With /Batara cinerea .: 4655 Calls. 10<10>27<10>99, Campos do Jord<C4>o. Clear, 20 <91>C. Open forest. With /Turdus rufiventris, Amazona vinacea, Zonotrichia capensis .: 4063 Calls. 10<10>20<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, Agulhas Negras road. Clear, 20 <91>C. High altitude scrub, 2000 meters.: 935 >: