A small, secretive bird of humid mountain forests from southeastern Peru into Bolivia. It forages on or close to the ground and uses forest understory and edges.
Adults are blackish with rufous flanks and a white crown patch. Females have finer dark and rufous barring on the flanks and rump; juveniles are dark brown with black bars.
It feeds on or near the ground in humid montane forest. In Bolivia it is reported in the understory and along edges of wet to semi-humid montane forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.