This small bird lives in grassy scrub and forest edges in Amazonia and forages in young second growth. Its rufous crown and dark throat are useful field marks.
It has a brown back, rufous crown, and gray tail. A white chin sits above a black throat, and the breast and belly are gray.
It forages in tall grass mixed with scrub, in second growth, and along forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.