A treehunter of the southern Colombian Andes. The Sibundoy Valley field guide describes a dark head with fine white streaks, a reddish-brown back, and a chestnut tail.
The crown and nape are blackish with fine white shaft streaks. The back and wings are dark reddish brown, the rump and tail chestnut, and the throat and breast cinnamon.
In dense forest undergrowth it hops through branches, moss, vines, and debris, feeding on beetles, grasshoppers and related insects, and small lizards.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.