This ovenbird occurs in the mountains of west-central Peru. A grey crown, rufous upper tail-coverts, and russet underparts help identify it.
It has a grey crown, dark brown back, a broken pale eye-ring, bright rufous upper tail-coverts, and russet underparts.
It forages in thorny highland scrub and at dry-forest edges, taking insects, spiders, and seeds. Pairs may forage down to the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.