This tinamou lives in South American grasslands. It has a black crown, reddish-brown neck and chest, and finely barred back. It stays among grass clumps and eats plants and small animals.
The face and underside are pale, the crown black, and the neck and chest cinnamon-colored. The back has fine patterning in brown, chestnut, gray, and white.
It lives in grassland, stays among clumps of grass, and gives calls that carry over a distance. It eats insects, spiders, small vertebrates, seeds, fruit, roots, and shoots.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.