Key Identification Features
- It is a stocky olive-brown species, with brown-streaked buffish white underparts, grey feet, a brown iris, and a distinctive serrated bill.
- The chest ranges from greenish buff to dull emerald, with distinctive short white streaks.
- A distinctive unusual layer of wet, soft decayed wood lies beneath the lining of fine twigs and leaves inside the nest, making the nest overall much larger relative to the bird's body size.
- They have distinctly green-brown or entirely brown upper bodies, lighter under bodies with a clear reticulated or scalloped pattern, and very striking blue eyes.
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