This miner lives in dry western Peruvian slopes and coastal lomas. It has gray-brown upperparts, a stout bill, and a pale eyebrow, and searches the ground among rocks.
It has gray-brown upperparts, a broad pale eyebrow, and a fairly short, stout bill. Its underparts are unmarked gray-brown, and the wings and tail look rufous in flight.
It forages on the ground among rocks in sparse montane scrub. Its account describes separate areas on the western Andean slope and in central Peruvian coastal lomas.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.