An older bird account describes a reddish-brown head, black face, and white neck spots, and reports flocks of twenty or more in deep forest ravines. These are historical observations.
The old account describes a reddish-brown forehead, crown, and nape; a black face; ferruginous rear ear-coverts; and white spots on both sides of the neck. The hindneck and upper back were ashy.
The observer described a noisy but shy bird, hard to see, occurring in small flocks of twenty or more and keeping to the densest forest ravines.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.