A pale area before the eye and a rufous tail help identify it. It searches in forest thickets and among ground litter, and has records at sites in southeastern Brazil.
Adults have dark rufous-brown upperparts, a pale area before the eye, a creamy underside, orange underwings, and a bright rufous tail. The juvenile is less pale below.
It forages in thickets and among ground litter. The account records it in humid primary and secondary forest and in degraded woodlots.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.