A small finch with a red face and white-spotted flanks, living in arid inland Australia. A 2007 field report also recorded nesting-related observations farther east in New South Wales.
It is olive-brown above with blackish, white-spotted flanks. Males have a bright red face; females have red around the eye, and the cherry-red rump is conspicuous in flight.
A 2007 field account from New South Wales recorded a pair and birds carrying twigs or grass, considered possible nest material.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.