This huet-huet walks on the forest floor and searches through leaf litter for food. It lives in Andean-Patagonian forests in southern South America.
It is dark slate grey, with a white eye-ring. The forehead, crown, upper tail, and belly are chestnut; the belly has black bars.
It is solitary and terrestrial, scratching soil and leaf litter for food. Its diet is presumed to be mainly insects. It rarely enters open areas and flies low between patches of vegetation.
Its breeding season runs from October to January. It nests in deep cavities in the ground or between roots, and may also use tree cavities. Clutches contain one to three white eggs, usually two; both parents incubate for 22 days, and chicks stay in the nest for about 21 days.
A study in southern Chile recorded five nests in roadside bank cavities; the four with egg counts averaged two eggs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.