The Brownish-headed Antbird is a ground-dwelling antbird of humid forests from southern Peru to western Bolivia. Males and females have different plumage.
Males are dark gray overall, with blackish-gray wings marked by broad white tips. Females have a dark brown crown and face, olive-brown upperparts, pale cinnamon-rufous wing tips, and tawny underparts.
It is diurnal and terrestrial in humid lowland or montane forest, where its diet consists of invertebrates. The cited account gives little detail on the exact foraging technique.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.