This ovenbird lives in the high Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It forages in humid or semi-humid scrub and has a rufous-brown back with a streaked breast.
It is about 16.5 cm long. The head and back are rufous brown, with whitish streaks on the breast and sides of the head and a thin pale eyebrow.
It uses humid or semi-humid Andean scrub, mainly on the eastern slope at about 3,100–3,800 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.