About 16 cm long, it has a chestnut forehead and crown, brown back and tail, and gray-ochre underparts. It lives in ravines and shrub steppe in northwestern Argentina.
The forehead and crown are chestnut, the back brown tinged chestnut, the rump chestnut, and the underside gray-ochre.
Its nest is a hanging twig structure in a shrub branch, lined with fine plant material, feathers, and hair.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.