The Varied Solitaire has a gray crown and underparts, a black face, brown back, and orange bill and legs. It lives in humid mountain forest from southern Panama to northwestern Colombia.
It has a gray crown and underparts, a black face and forehead, brown upperparts, and orange bill and legs.
It occurs in humid premontane and montane forest above about 800 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.