This small bird occurs from Amazonia to the eastern Andean slope. It has a grayish head and rufous wings and tail, and forages low in young second growth and at forest edges.
Its head and mantle are grayish, while the folded wing and tail are rufous. The amount of whitish color on the throat varies; the breast and belly are gray.
It forages in the understory of fairly young second growth and along forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.