It has a grey head and a chestnut body. It occurs in southern South America and moves north toward the central Amazon during the austral winter.
It is about 18 cm long. The head is gray; the back, tail, throat, and breast are chestnut. The belly is paler, and the wings are brown to chestnut.
It moves toward the central Amazon in the austral winter and also occurs in Bolivia and southern Venezuela during that season.
At Cruce Caballero Provincial Park in Misiones, birds made short flights beneath canopy foliage to catch cicadas, grasshoppers, damselflies, and adult and larval butterflies and moths. One individual also collected small red fruits.
In observations in Misiones, vocal activity was strongest after sunrise and through the morning, especially at about 07:00–10:00.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.