A small bird of the mountains of Costa Rica and Panama. It searches for ground-dwelling invertebrates in dense growth in humid montane evergreen and elfin forests.
The type coloration in the 1889 original description is dark olive above, deep slate-gray below, and brownish orange on the crown with a black stripe on each side.
It uses dense thickets and bamboo in humid montane evergreen and elfin forests. The account describes it as terrestrial and as a ground-feeding invertebrate-eater.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.