The Brazilian Tinamou has a reddish-brown head and upper back, a grayish neck and breast, and a pale belly. Records in Peru are rare, and the species is poorly known there.
The neck and breast are grayish, the belly is pale, and the head and upper back are reddish brown. The wings and lower back have dark and brown barring; females are duller and less distinctly barred.
It favors terra firme forest, inland tropical forest that is not extensively flooded. The account describes it as rare and poorly known in Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and lower Loreto in Peru.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.