An Andean nightingale-thrush of South America. A 2017 study supported treating C. maculatus as a species separate from Central American C. dryas.
The Argentine account describes a black head, olive-brown back, wings, and tail, yellowish underparts, a streaked throat, and a dark-speckled breast.
The Argentine blakei population inhabits dense shrub growth in humid forest up to 1,700 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.