Adults are grayish brown, with a chestnut-red shoulder and a small white wing-bar. In grassland with some trees and light woodland, they feed mainly on seeds.
Adult males and females are similar, with grayish-brown heads, necks, and backs, chestnut-red shoulders, and a small white wing-bar. Juveniles are similar but lack the white wing-bar.
It lives in grassland with some trees and light woodland and feeds mainly on seeds.
The bill is blackish horn-coloured.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.