The Small Ground Finch is endemic to the Galápagos Islands and eats seeds, fruit, and small arthropods. An 1841 account describes the female’s underparts as gray.
The 1841 account describes the female’s wings and tail as dark brown and her gray underparts as having darker centers to the feathers.
It feeds on seeds, flowers, fruit, and small arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.